Jim Thompson Libri

Per sondare gli abissi della psiche di un assassino serve un valente strizzacervelli? Macché, basta cercarne le radici in una sonnolenta cittadina del Texas, dove il vicesceriffo locale, l’insondabile Lou Ford, sente che sta riprendendo vigore nel suo intimo la malattia, una follia incontrollabile che sfocia in reazioni inconsulte. Incaricato di cacciare dai confini urbani una sciantosa che adesca clienti, tra cui il figlio del ricco petroliere del luogo, finisce per seminare una lunga scia di violenza dietro di sé, tappando una falla da una parte e aprendone una nuova da un’altra. Malefatte che è lo stesso protagonista a raccontare al lettore, in una sorta di confessione fiume, in tempo reale, come se non fosse Jim Thompson bensì Lou Ford stesso a prenderlo per mano e a trascinarlo nell’insensato vortice della sua violenza cieca. Scritto nel 1952, in una fase di sfrenato boom petrolifero, L’assassino che è in me è una delle opere più straordinarie di Jim Thompson e viene universalmente collocato tra i classici dell’hard boiled come pure del romanzo di provincia americano. Non a caso Hollywood, che ha sempre saccheggiato la produzione letteraria di Thompson, nel 2010 ne ha tratto l’omonima, fortunata pellicola, con un incredibile Casey Affleck nel ruolo dell’antieroe Lou Ford, per la regia di Michael Winterbottom.

Focusing on effective coaching strategies, this book offers powerful tools developed from Jim Thompson's Positive Coaching Alliance. It incorporates best practices from elite coaches and insights from sports psychology research. With lessons and activities designed for immediate implementation, it aims to enhance the enjoyment of sports while maximizing player performance. Ideal for coaches looking to foster a positive environment, the book provides practical resources shaped by extensive workshops.

In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many strange things occur, Britt Rainstar begins to have second thoughts about his angelic--or demonic--love. If he can survive the attacks of a devil-possessed dog, a trigger-happy skeleton, and a mystery person who pushes his wheelchair down the stairs, then maybe Britt can escape Manuela and the evil that followers her.

Sheriff Nick Corey of Potts County, is a simple man, but when he is pushed to far he becomes a killer or makes other people do his killings

William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. He is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse.

Is Carl Bigelow a fresh-faced college kid looking for a room, or is he a poised hit man tracking down his victim? And if Carl is really two people, what about everyone around him? Savage Night is Thompson at his best, with plot reversals and nightmarish shifts of identity.

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 his estranged, still faithfully devoted wife, Ellen. Only the bottle keeps him company. But now Ellen has returned to Pacific City, and she's ready to do whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing his deepest secret -- a painful truth Brown would do anything to stop from coming to light. He'd kill a whole lot of people just to keep this one thing quiet -- and soon enough, the bodies just happen to start piling up around him

"When David 'Bugs' McKenna is hired as the house detective for his hotel by Mike Hanlon, the town's crippled millionaire, McKenna has hopes that he can leave his violent past behind. But the death of Dudley, the hotel auditor, the disapperace of $5,000 and the unwanted attentions of Lou Ford, the town's deputy sheriff, and Joyce, Hanlon's beautiful, young wife, means that McKenna is looking at more trouble than he can handle. And either a long, long, stretch in the State Pen or a longer stay in the town cemetery..." -- From back cover

The Manton looks like a respectable hotel. Dusty Rhodes looks like a selfless young man working as a bellhop. And the woman in 1004 looks like an angel. But sometimes looks can kill, as Jim Thompson demonstrates in this vision of the crime novel as gothic.