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 the mistake of invading his l
After Tommy Burwell and his friend Four Trey get jobs working with dynamite along a gas pipline in the plains of Texas, Tommy witnesses a brutal murder and learns of a planned robbery, as he and Trey
The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research
Toddy Kent was born with a gizmo in his head -- a taient for finding the easy money -- but Toddy's gift has the habit of deserting him when he needs it most. When he discovers a seemingly limitless (a
This fictionalized account retraces the author's zigzag path across the prairie states in the 1930s and 1940s as he consorts with corpses and con men, outruns railroad bulls, shakes down debtors, and
In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but wh
This fictionalized account retraces the author's zigzag path across the prairie states in the 1930s and 1940s as he consorts with corpses and con men, outruns railroad bulls, shakes down debtors, and
Mitch Corley has a girlfriend with expensive tastes and a ruthless wife who refuses to become an "ex" without major compensation. He needs big money and he needs it fast. Which makes
An underaged bellboy thrust into an awful intimacy with grown-up vice. An alcoholic writer trying to postpone a crack-up just long enough to finish his next book. A wildly dysfunctional Okie family fl
Old Lincoln Fargo has spent his life engaging in almost every vice imaginable--and his only regret is that he once stole a horse. His son Grant, a shiftless dandy with a resemblance to Edgar Allan Poe
The place is a frontier boom town where the graft gets collected more regularly than the trash. The hero is Bugs McKenna, slow-witted, hot-tempered man with manslaughter in his past and much worse in
For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn't when he'll explo
William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. His is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken o
The first self-loading rifle to see widespread military use, the robust M1 Garand survived the tests of battel in both World War II and Korea, and it remains a favorite among competition shooters and
Presents an introduction to the exhilarating world of game design. This book includes step-by-step tutorials that offer various aspects of designing and developing dynamic computer games.
“Always ready, always there” is the official motto of the United States National Guard. This military branch is presented through the eyes of a child whose cousin upholds that motto every day as a mem
Presents a fictionalized account of the early life of the well-known crime novelist, detailing his rich and bawdy youth in the Southwest during the 1920s.
Chronicles the struggle to survive, in a rapidly changing world, of Lincoln Fargo--a former Civil War soldier, riverboat owner, stonemason, and saloonkeeper, and the patriarch of the Fargo clan--and h
Luane Devore, a middle-aged woman of the fading gentry, spends her days as a self-imposed invalid maliciously gossiping about her neighbors, and now someone will finally take action to silence her per
Playing dice in the back rooms and side streets across the state of Texas, Mitch Corley hopes to strike it rich before his girlfriend realizes they are short on cash.
Patrick Cosgrove used to think he'd do anything not to be a prisoner of Sandstone State Reformatory. Fifteen years on the inside for a victimless crime, under the care of a warden whose penchant for v
Britton Rainstar believes he has finally found the perfect woman, but a series of mysterious and increasingly ominous events leads him to doubt her sincerity.
When Matthew Ontime, a wealthy Oklahoma rancher, is found murdered, nineteen-year-old Tommy Carver who is seeing Ontime's daughter and is the son of a sharecropper who hates the victim, is accused of
Luane Devore's days are numbered. All her neighbors in the declining seaside resort town of Manduwoc want her dead. Some, like her young husband Ralph and his girlfriend Danny, want the thousands of d
A teenage girl is raped and murdered. A father turns his back on his son. A vicious press lord turns justice into a carnival. A terrified boy is railroaded. In the twisted world of Jim Thompson, every
Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a
Pat Cosgrove was a convict in the state's vilest prison, and Doc Luther gave him his freedom. Cosgrove had never been loved, and Luther gave him two mistresses--one of them the beautiful Mrs. Luther.
When Joe Wilmot and his wife, Elizabeth, can no longer stand to live together after ten years of marriage, they concoct a scheme that will allow them to go their separate ways without legal complicati
The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are designed to enhance your reading of this outstanding selection from the 'hard-boiled' school of crime writing: The Killer Inside
As high sheriff of Potts County, Nick Corey spends most of his time eating, sleeping and avoiding trouble. If only people--especially some troublesome pimps, his foul-tempered wife, and his half-witte
Young, beautiful, and fearfully abused, Mona was the kind of girl even a hard man like Dillon couldn't bring himself to use. But when Mona told him about the vicious aunt who had turned her into somet
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who
