Jim Thompson

Pop. 1280

Sheriff Slade Jenkins in a small town harbors dark secrets and methodical murderous impulses

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Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson was a pulp fiction writer whose nihilistic crime novels plumbed the darkest depths of American psychopathology. The Killer Inside Me and Pop. 1280 feature first-person narrators of almost incomprehensible moral depravity. Rediscovered in the 1980s, his work has been recognized as among the most harrowing in American crime fiction.

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