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Jim Thompson
A classic crime novel from 'the best suspense writer going, bar none' NEW YORK TIMES With a new introduction by Charlie Higson
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Traces the life of the American writer, and discusses the influence of his unloving father and alcoholism on his fiction
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Nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver desperately wants to make something of himself, but he’s got some mighty tall odds stacked against him - a brutal sharecropper father, a secret love affair with…
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When convicted bank robber Pat Cosgrove is paroled from prison through the efforts of a man he barely knows and provided with a home, a job, and other favors, he…
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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…
A classic crime novel from ‘the best suspense writer going, bar none’ New York Times
Emma Thompson
A new Christmas classic from a magical pairing: Dame Emma Thompson and Axel Scheffler.
The story of Jim: a very lucky, very special, very grubby dog, who lives, improbably, in…
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William Warren
Jim Thompson was already a legend for the James H.W. Thompson Silk Company that he founded, when he disappeared in the Cameron highlands in Malaysia in 1967.
When the renowned American businessman, Jim Thompson, disappeared on Easter Sunday 1967 in mysterious circumstances, the legend of this extraordinarily gifted designer and entrepreneur began. During a period of two…
Robert Polito
Polito gives readers the man and his worlds and the real people behind his fictional creations. He addresses Thompson’s Wobblie and Communist Party life, his involvement with the true crime…
Barf is a dog, but Barf is not so bright. Barf often gets into the craziest situations. Join him, the man with the big hat, and the little boy in…
Meet Maxy Quinn the world’s unluckiest kid, whose life has been turned upside down ever since he found a reverse four-leaf clover that gave him the worst luck ever. Could…
Jim Thompson’s commentary on Ezekiel will strengthen, encourage, and fortify the faith of its readers. It is written from a dispensational perspective with a reverent view of Scripture as God’s…
Handbook for those charged with conducting production or project meetings.
In the 1920’s, the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call ‘South of Heaven’, and the worst you could be doing there…
Singing is one of the most repeated commands in Holy Scripture. It’s right up there with believe and do not fear. But commands like these can feel vaguely spiritual, intangible…
This collection of Jim Thompson’s Nip Impressions columns (which appear at www.nipimpressions.com) covers the subjects of Decline/Education/Electronics/Energy/Environment/Fraud & Ethics
An autobiographical tale of the life of underappreciated crime novelist Jim Thompson details his rich and bawdy youth.
Originally published in hardcover by Greenberg, February 1946 –Title page verso.
Originally published: New York: Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1964.
This collection of Jim Thompson’s Nip Impressions columns (which appear at www.nipimpressions.com) covers the subjects of Investment/Job Satisfaction and Management
This collection of Jim Thompson’s Nip Impressions columns (which appear at www.nipimpressions.com) covers the subjects of Maintenance/Marketing & Sales/Optimism/Pessimism/Policy & Society
Redefining Social Security to incorporate Health Care Reform is a revolutionary idea that should be considered and debated. This concept provides for an all-inclusive, fair and equitable means to provide…
Jim Thompson is back again…with a new book on a taboo subject: the personalities in the pulp & paper industry. Jim has written in the past on many subjects based…
This book is intended for those early in their careers who tend to view employment primarily as a means of earning an income. In the early chapters, the origins of…
A Hell of a Woman is Jim Thompson’s version of an American Crime and Punishment. In a novel completely devoid of sentiment, ‘Dolly'Dillon, a door-to-door salesman, goes about the appalling…
The lives of the Talberts are changed forever when their fifteen-year-old son is charged with rape and murder.
Luane Devore is about to be murdered. Among the suspects are various people whose reputations have been blighted by Luane’s malicious gossip, including her young, servile husband and a doctor…
After a wartime injury leaves him with a bitter and incomplete life, Clinton Brown turns to drinking as his sole consolation and then to the destruction of those who make…
Convinced his wife is planning to murder him, Mike Hanlon, a paraplegic wildcatter, tries to convince chief Lou Ford to take action.
Classic crime novel by acclaimed author Jim Thompson - ‘the best suspense writer going, bar none’ NEW YORK TIMES
Originally published in paperback by Fawcett Gold Medal Books, February 1965.
By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber’s helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy…
Originally published in paperback by Lion Books, March 1953.
Appreciate, collect, and maintain the M1 Garand, a part of history.
Reissue of a true classic - ‘One of the toughest crime novels ever’ (Newsweek). ‘Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none’ NEW YORK TIMES
Describes a poor Okie family trying to get by in wartime California while an alcoholic writer tries to finish another book.
This is the Enoch generation.
It is time to get ready.
Jim Thompson takes an in-depth look at a mysterious man known as Enoch. Enoch was an ancient man who…
Nineteen-year-old Carver is poised to rise above his humble origins as the son of the Okie sharecropper: he’s getting an education, and he’s begun a secret romance with Donna, a…
Under the guise of a college student, Carl Bigelow moves into a small town and into the life of Jake Winroy, a one-time crook who now plans to testify against…
Explains how to put sportsmanship and fun back into youth sports, offering a series of sports psychology principles and practical tools that replace the must win attitude with an approach…
Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young–and loves Roy a little too intensely–to be taken for his mother. Moira…
Murder at the Bijou (originally titled Nothing More Than Murder) is noir master Jim Thompson’s dizzying tale of deception, adultery, revenge, arson, and cold-blooded murder in Smalltown, U.S.A., Thompson’s favorite…
Get the job! is a complete guide to getting any job you want. Learn everything from mastering the perfect resume, to how to handle any job interview. You will learn…
Potts County is the perfect place for lazy, racist, misogynistic, hypocritical, unscrupulous, and amoral Sheriff Nicky Corey. With an election coming up, he has to deal with two local pimps…
