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- This product had a total of 203 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 3 2019.
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Decades before ted bundy john wayne gacy jeffery dahmer velma barfield gary ridgway and an endless string of american psychos made serial killers a part of the national nightmare and a stock hollywood staple jim thompson etched a terse sinewy portrait of that particularly american monster
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On the inside ford is psycho with what he calls ‘the sickness’ a secret sadist who enjoys grinding a cigar butt into a bum’s hand and beating a hooker senseless—a turnon for them both
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They become lovers and coconspirators in a blackmail scheme
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Lou has other nasty habits besides killing and violent sex
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Lou is exhibit one in thompson’s caustic indictment of 1950s smalltown hypocrisy
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
But to make these charges stick he has to make mythical central city texas come to life with painstaking detail capturing both the banal and the corrupt
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This was written in 1952 approximately no foul language just a brilliant disturbing novel
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This story has none of the flash and bang of insane situations and horrible violence that we need and expect from stories today
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