I’ve read a few Jim Thompson books (all audiobooks) and I would listen to every single one I could get my hands on if more were available. The stories (all weird, alluring, and violent) are attractive and compelling dips into some kind of petty underworld, and usually with a compelling narrator (at least four straight so far for me). This one dips into some heavy trope territory and as it’s 1955 you have to be willing to put up with some heavy bouts of misogyny […]