The Grifters
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Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also
a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. MoiraLangtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and sois Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a badchoice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseballbat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in acoruscating novel of corruption.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781409130208
- Author: Jim Thompson
- Pub date: 22.07.10
- RRP: $31.99
- Format: Electronic book text
Author
Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant
childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office forembezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s,Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses ofthe 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months.He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killingand Paths of Glory).Other books by the author
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