The "heroes" in Thompson's fiction are those generally discarded by literature and the crime - fiction genre ; itinerant roughnecks, downtrodden salesmen, grifters down on their luck looking for that elusive big break, ingratiating hotel bellboys and dodgy conniving businessmen. His books are populated by outsiders, alcoholics, sexual predators and losers ; violent psychopaths, megalomaniac lawmen, pneumatic bottle-dyed blondes and, of course, guileless innocents led like lambs to a ritual slaughter.
Cigarettes and Alcohol
Charles Waring
2008
Crimetime.co.uk
https://www.crimetime.co.uk/cigarettes-and-alchohol-the-extraordinary-life-of-jim-thompson/
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