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    Savage Night

    Written by Jim Thompson

    Narrated by David W. Collins

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    Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake's got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly.

    Jake's to be the top witness in a major case against organized crime--if he hasn't already kicked the bucket before the trial has its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify.

    The Man's hired Charlie "Little" Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood. To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and the Winroy's young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is vulnerable. SAVAGE NIGHT is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 1, 2012
    ISBN9781611137378
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    Jim Thompson

    Jim Thompson is an internationally published firearms writer, photographer, and consultant with more than five decades of experience as a serious shooter and experimenter. He purchased his first M1 in 1963. His dedication to precise historical research combined with his practical, empirical insight has yielded significant contributions to the fields of military history and weapons development. He resides in La Crosse, Wisconsin.

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    • 4/5
      Carl Bigelow arrives in the small college town of Peardale and finds there's a problem with the room he has rented in the Winroy house. First, the Winroy's have a bad reputation, secondly, Mrs. Winroy's too good-looking and friendly, and third, Mr. Winroy is a paranoid drunk who sicks the sheriff on Carl right away because he thinks his young, five foot tall lodger is a hitman come to kill him. Add in another lodger who sees promise in Carl as a baker and scholar, and the deformed kitchen help who falls in love and you have a seething mess of longing and disappointment.As with most of Thompson's books, the ending to this is surprising, violent and bizarre.
    • 4/5
      I read this having heard that it was one of his top two (along with Killer Inside Me) but I didn't like it nearly as much as his other stuff. I think this is largely because the main character SOUNDS like he should be fascinating, but Thompson didn't take the time to let us peer into his madness. The kinky elements provide some insight (I'll not spoil them here) but for a ruthless hired killer, the protag largely comes across as just a functioning drunk. Additionally, the build-up to the payoff is far too long and lacks tension--after all, most of the development is spent on the protag's developing a relationship with some old pedant. At least the novel is short. Nota bene: my complaints about the plotting and characterization aside, Thompson's pelucid style, inventive ideas, insight, etc., make anything he writes far better than most stuff out there.
    • 4/5
      It's like this... whenever I read one of these 'hard-boiled' crime type novels I can't help but read it in a James Cagney's voice... you see. This I believe was my first Jim Thompson novel and I really did enjoy it. Carl Bigelow aka Charlie 'Little' Bigger arrives in a small town to take care of business for 'The Man' and runs into a little problem with the dames. Having bad teeth, damaged eyes, wearing platform shoes and suffering from consumption doesn't seem to stop him from getting the dames either.Strange characters (including a hot dame with a baby foot), thrilling plot complete with twists, and an ending to die for... what more could you ask for?'Sure there's a hell...' I could hear him saying it now, now, as I lay here in bed with her breath in my face, and her body squashed against me... 'It is the drab desert where the sun sheds neither warmth nor light and Habit force-feeds senile Desire. It is the place where mortal Want dwells with immortal Necessity, and the night becomes hideous with the groans of one and the ecstatic shrieks of the other. Yes, there is a hell, my boy, and you do not have to dig for it...'
    • 5/5
      My favorite Jim Thompson book, also the first one I read. That might have biased me to it. The main character is really cool, I like that he's not a total pychopath like in some other thompson books. The ending is really nice. Arty.