‘A blisteringly imaginative crime novelist . . . violent, amoral, terse and fast-moving . . . a classic American novelist’ Kirkus Reviews
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 business of murder without conscience, without remorse and without any hope of redemption, because of a woman . . .
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 business of murder without conscience, without remorse and without any hope of redemption, because of a woman . . .
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Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none
Thompson captured the spirit of the age and the spirit of the twentieth century's latter half: emptiness, a feeling of loss in a land of plenty, of unease amid conformity, of alienation
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.