- Fiction, American fiction, Crime thrillers, Bank robberies
Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten--such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing as a clean getaway.
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Classical in form, grave, spare and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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- Author
- Jim Thompson
- First published
- 1959
- Pages
- 180
- Publisher
- Bantam Books, Vintage Books, Creative Arts Book Co.
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780451015846
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Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma, the son of a county sheriff. His family relocated to Texas during his childhood. His first short stories were published in his teen years. As a hotel worker, he had access to bootleg liquor and drugs, and he smoked and drank heavily. At 19 he had a nervous breakdown. In 1926 he took work in an oil field laborer, then returned to Fort Worth to to attend school and write. In 1929 he began attending the University of Nebraska, but he dropped out two years later and married. Their first child was born in 1932. Thompson worked as a true crime reporter and as a journalist for the next few years. His first novel, Now And On Earth, was published in 1942.
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