South of Heaven
Language: English
20th Century American Novel And Short Story Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Detective and Mystery Stories Fiction Fiction - Psychological Suspense Gas industry Gas industry - Fiction General Hard-Boiled Mystery Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Natural gas pipelines Natural gas pipelines - Fiction Political Psychological Suspense Texas Texas - Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Aug 15, 1994
Description:
SUMMARY: In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call "South of Heaven," and the worst thing you could be doing there was laying a gas pipeline, along with six-hundred other hoboes, juice-heads, and jailbirds. But that's exactly what Tommy Burwell was doing, even though he wasn't smart enough to know better. Even though "South of Heaven" is another term for hell.Combining a tale of escalating savagery with a dead-eyed group portrait of men at the edge, Jim Thompson has produced a masterpiece of the American dissolute.