Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement, and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. 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.
Ganarse la vida timando a gente tiene sus recompensas, pero también entraña sus riesgos. Y esta vez a Roy Dillon le ha tocado pagar. Un dependiente le ha pillado in fraganti y le ha dado un golpe que le ha causado una hemorragia interna. Roy no se da cuenta de la gravedad del accidente,...
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