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Gold Medal K1522 (1965).
Gold Medal K1522 (1965).

“The Killer Inside Me” was first published by Lion Books in 1952. It is arguably Thompson's finest and best-known novel. The narrator, Lou Ford, is a small-town deputy sheriff who appears amiable, pleasant and slightly dull-minded. Ford is actually very intelligent and fighting a nearly-constant urge to act violently; Ford describes his urge as "the sickness." Lion Books unsuccessfully attempted to have “The Killer Inside Me” nominated for a National Book Award. It was adapted for the screen in 1976 by director Burt Kennedy, with Stacy Keach as Lou Ford, and again in 2010 by director Michael Winterbottom, with Casey Affleck as Ford and co-starring Kate Hudson and Jessica Alba.

Here is the 2010 movie trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_U2LUsfeMwg

"Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the New York Times, he was little-recognized in his lifetime. Only after death did Thompson's literary stature grow, when in the late 1980s, several novels were re-published in the Black Lizard series of re-discovered crime fiction...

"Thompson's writing culminated in a few of his best-regarded works: The Killer Inside Me, Savage Night, A Hell of a Woman and Pop. 1280. In these works, Thompson turned the derided pulp genre into literature and art, featuring unreliable narrators, odd structure, and surrealism." [From the Goodreads website at www.goodreads.com/author/show/7621.Jim_Thompson]

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