After Dark, My Sweet - Paperback
by Jim Thompson
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chelsea Cain, Jim ThompsonSeries:Mulholland ClassicPublish date:2014-08-05Pages:224
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316403849ISBN-10:316403849UPC:9780316403849Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC0ZNAZ2MB
A classic crime novel about a kidnapping scheme gone wrong from Jim Thompson's, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky." William "Kid" Collins was once a respected boxer. Now he's a drifter, on the run after escaping from a mental institution. One afternoon he meets Fay, a beautiful young widow. She is smart and decent -- at least when she's sober. Soon Collins finds himself involved in a kidnapping scheme that goes drastically wrong almost before it even begins. Because the kid they've picked up isn't like other kids: he's diabetic and without insulin, he'll die. Not the safest situation for Collins, a man for whom stress and violence have long gone hand-in-hand. After Dark, My Sweet once again displays Jim Thompson as the undisputed master of American noir. The basis of James Foley's critically acclaimed film of the same name, with the sweep of an epic tragedy, Thompson's classic limns the dangerous territory of honest people all-too-easily sucked into wickedness, with no way out but down.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Mulholland BooksISBN-13:9780316403849ISBN-10:316403849UPC:9780316403849Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Crime, Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:8.30 x 5.50 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.45Product ID:SC0ZNAZ2MB
Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when 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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