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
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
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
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
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
"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. " --Washingt
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
The Manton looks like a respectable hotel. Dusty Rhodes looks like a selfless young man working as a bellhop. And the woman in 1004 looks like an angel. But sometimes looks can kill, as Jim Thompson d
