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Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before hed worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the states latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jakes got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly. Jakes to be the top witness in a major case against organized crime--if he hasnt already kicked the bucket before the trial has its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify. The Mans hired Charlie Little Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood. To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and the Winroys young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is vulnerable. SAVAGE NIGHT is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one mans fractured mind.About the Author:Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detectivewhen he was only fourteen. Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals. Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet(1955), and The Grifters (1963).
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Mulholland Books
