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Like so many in her modern generation she fell into the category of the “Sowers of Wild Oats” and failed to see the moral chasm of her ESCAPE TO SINDOM For what began as a relief from social boredom became a trap of social shame, and once … more

Jim Thompson has a a reoccuring nightmare since puberty. He finds this nightmare is in reality a strange “memory” and it opens a family mystery spanning over sixty years. Join Jim and his father Morgan as they unravel a dangerous thread.

A real page turner. Like all good pulp fiction, there are no real heroes - just varying shades of villains, hoods, weak-willed scumbags and gun molls. This book is well worth the time.A groundbreaking, multi-part narrative about a plot to r… more

From a sociopath with superhuman hearing to a town under siege by anvils, L.V Rautenbaumgrabner’s collection of short stories are both hilarious and downright disturbing. With hints of Jim Thompson, William Faulkner, and Gabriel García Márq… more

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother’s whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a … more

“It’s about meth, fishing, trash American culture and young adult despair. Imagine a Raymond Carver or Jim Thompson for the text message age and that would only begin to get it.”—KRIS SAKNUSSEMM, author of Reverend AmericaTrapped in a rura… more

On Easter Day, 1967, American businessman and founder of the modern Thai silk industry, James H.W. Thompson disappeared while supposedly on a stroll in the jungle-clad Cameron Highlands, central Malaysia. The circumstances were unusual, and… more

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 … more

Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou’s known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers—the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between—as… more

Johnny Clay, an ex-con determined to strike it rich, has worked out a fool-proof scheme to knock off a racetrack payroll. The two million bucks should be enough to last him a lifetime or two. But a two-faced dame has another idea: Let Johnn… more

War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he’s struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man for Pacific City’s Courier. Shame has led him to isolate himself from closest friends and even … more

How the West’s greatest spy in Asia tried to stop the new American way of war—and the steep price he paid for failingJim Thompson landed in Thailand at the end of World War II, a former American society dilettante who became an Asian legend… more

A traveller arrived in Tana Ratha on 26th March 2007. He reads a story in the Malaysian Newspaper “New Straight Times” in the Busterminal of Ipoh. about Jim Thompson, who disappeared 40 Years ago, after leaving his villa in the jungle, wit… more

At thirteen Jim Thompson was learning how to smoke cigars and ogle burlesque girls under the tutelage of his profane grandfather. A few years later, he was bellhopping at a hotel in Fort Worth, where he supplemented his income peddling boot… more

Now hailed as a classic, one of the most unforgettable and heartbreaking books ever written about the Vietnam War.GloryDenied—the harrowing storyof America’s longest-held POW, the wrenching agonies faced by his family, andthe larger story o… more

Jebediah Crane receives a note ordering him to kill his own father within twenty-four hours or be killed himself. The problem is, his father has been dead for over a decade. What follows is a strange, darkly-fantastical tale with elements o… more

A mental patient (Jonathan Dexter), with an ongoing history of violence and suffering an extreme form of Borderline Personality Disorder, is discharged into the community after three years in a private asylum. In a prosperous English town, … more

Jack Andrelli’s life - a quick checklist.Dead girlfriend…checkAlcohol problem…checkGambling debt…checkLooming death…checkCommitting fraud…checkThrow in the most beautiful woman Jack’s ever laid eyes on and the fact that she’s tryi… more

A ferocious debut that puts Frank Bill’s southern Indiana on the literary map next to Cormac McCarthy’s eastern Tennessee and Daniel Woodrell’s Missouri OzarksCrimes in Southern Indiana is the most blistering, vivid, flat-out fearless debut… more

Warning: this book contains bad language and violence.THE STORY: A storage locker auction is ripe for the picking, says low-level criminal Clyde; and what choice do his friends Scottie and Harry have? All three are in debt to a bad, bad man… more