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POP. 1280 (Crime Masterworks)

POP. 1280 (Crime Masterworks)

by JimThompson (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $17.78
Synopsis

Nick Corey likes being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the upcoming elections and the women who adore him. And it turns out that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Publisher: Orion
Published: 16 Jan 2003
ISBN 10: 0752851845
ISBN 13: 9780752851846
Book Overview: 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' The New York Times 'Thompson's writing is dense, lurid, idiomatic, musical in its speech rhythms...alternatively plaintive and obscene...raucous and bitterly funny' The Village Voice 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it' The Washington Post 'A master of the noir crime novel. His vision of small town America...is uniquely compelling' Waterstone's Guide to Crime Fiction * 'The toughest crime novels ever' Newsweek

Media Reviews
WWW.TANGLED-WEB.CO.UK featured a review of POP. 1280 on their site from the 21st March 03. This included a summary of the plot. WRITER'S JOURNAL will be publishing a large feature on Jim Thompson and will be mentioning our new titl
Author Bio
Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. 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.