Bad Boy by Jim Thompson

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Bad Boy by Jim Thompson

First published in 1953, Bad Boy by Jim Thompson follows the life of the acclaimed American crime novelist in the words of the author himself.

From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before.

From his rabble-rousing adolescence in the American Midwest to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry to Thompson’s chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of The Killer Inside Me, Bad Boy offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir. This autobiography-as-novel follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous.

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