The Killer Inside Me
Published on 3. August 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-7528-7958-1 (ISBN)
Description
THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey Affleck, directed by Michael Winterbottom.
'Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered' Stanley Kubrick
'His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny...extraordinary' INDEPENDENT
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that.
Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating. Tense and suspenseful, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a brilliantly sustained noir crime masterpiece.
'Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered' Stanley Kubrick
'His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny...extraordinary' INDEPENDENT
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that.
Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating. Tense and suspenseful, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a brilliantly sustained noir crime masterpiece.
Reviews / Votes
The best suspense writer going, bar none * NEW YORK TIMES * I don't read many books twice but Jim Thompson novels - due to their concise, dirty power, their relentless violence and purity - can always draw me in for a second time. Some of the most psychological crime writing ever done. I love James M Cain and Elmore Leonard but Jim Thompson holds a special place in my heart. Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered -- Stanley Kubrick I'd never read anything like the books he turned out in the '50s and '60s. His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny...extraordinary * INDEPENDENT * Thompson captured the spirit of his Age, and the spirit of the 20th Century's latter half: emptiness, a feeling of loss in a land of plenty, of unease amid conformity, of alienation -- Stephen KingMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
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Paperback (UK-B)
Dimensions
Height: 199 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
183 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7528-7958-1 (9780752879581)
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Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement, and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. Among his many novels are THE KILLER INSIDE ME, THE GRIFTERS, THE GETAWAY and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY). POP. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title COUP DE TORCHON.