The Nothing Man
Language: English
20th Century American Novel And Short Story Crime & Thriller Crime & mystery Criminals Criminals - Fiction Detective Detective and Mystery Stories Fiction Fiction - Mystery General Hard-Boiled Mystery & Detective Mystery & Detective - General Mystery & Detective - Hard-Boiled Psychological Fiction Psychology Veterans Veterans - Psychology - Fiction
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: Jun 15, 1997
Description:
SUMMARY: "If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it. " --Washington Post Clinton Brown is smart, good-looking, and the best rewrite man on the Pacific City Courier. The wife he divorced is still in love with him, as is the alluring and well-heeled widow who will do anything to make him happy. But Brown is missing something, and without that one thing there's no possibility of happiness--no possibility of anything but knocking back the booze and punishing anyone foolish enough to try to take away his loneliness. What Clinton Brown lacks may be enough to make him murder.Is Brown a killer or the victim of a sadistic frame-up? And if he's innocent, why is he so intent on being caught? Deviously plotted, fearfully acquainted with the psychology of rage and guilt, The Nothing Man is further proof of Jim Thompson's mastery of the crime genre.