The Grifters by Jim Thompson

The Grifters by Jim Thompson

Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Among his many novels are The Killer Inside Me, The Grifters, The Getaway and After Dark, My Sweet. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory). Pop. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title Coup de Torchon.

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ISBN 13	9780752852065
ISBN 10	075285206X
Title	The Grifters
Author	Jim Thompson
Series	Crime Masterworks
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2003-10-16
Number of pages	192
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