But like few other writers, Thompson understood the dark side of human nature and society's fringes - luckless losers adrift in a twilight world of cheap hotels and alcohol, blackmailers and grifters, psychopaths, serial killers, and crooked cops. His novels pulsed with characters driven by lust, betrayal, revenge and violence. Readers were apt to encounter a deranged, criminal narrator with an outer normality masking simmering, inner turmoil.
excerpt from
Oklahoma's Dark Poet of Crime
Jim Logan
Oklahoma Today Magazine
2023
https://www.oklahomatoday.com/history-culture/oklahoma-s-dark-poet-of-crime
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