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by Jim Thompson (Author)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Orion (3 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752879618
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752879611
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 174,421 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Nick Corey likes being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the upcoming elections and the women who adore him. And it turns out that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.


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Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory).
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Fascinatingly Amoral, 7 Jan 2004
This review is from: POP. 1280 (Crime Masterworks) (Paperback)
This was the first novel I have read by Thompson, and I'm not sure if I should read another. I fear for my moral fibre.
Without giving too much away, here is a truely fascinating monster. Sheriff Nick Corey sidles up to you, with the air of the dumb hick, beguiling even the reader. This is a hard feeling to shake off even with what follows, it is so effectively done.

Surrounded by other unredeemables with only rare glimpses of a more worthy way of life, this is an uncompromisingly unsympathetic depiction of small town corruption.
The question is: will the author give his characters their just desserts?

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3.0 out of 5 stars Sarcastically Typically Thompson, 19 Jan 2001
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This review is from: Pop 1280 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)
After I read the interesting »The Killer Inside Me«, I had appetite for more Jim Thompson, and my choice fell on »Pop. 1280«. The story is pretty much the same in those two novels, only is the main character's complex and slightly psychopathic personality different. In a way, the sheriff in »Pop. 1280« has more sympathetic sides than the deputy in »The Killer Inside Me«

Once again, JimThompson successfully creates a thrilling environment in a tiny Texan county, and it is all experienced from inside the killer's mind. This way of telling a story works out very well, it glues your eyes to the book - and what's more is that Jim Thompson writes with a lot of humour and sarcasm. This gives the whole thing even more spice, and is maybe even the best feature of »Pop. 1280«.

I am very close to grant this novel 4 stars, but somehow, all in all, the book disappoints compared to »The Killer Inside Me«. If you want well-written, straight-forward, and very (black-)humourous suspense, Jim Thomson is your man, and »Pop. 1280« is not at all a bad choice!

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4.0 out of 5 stars Very Dark, 11 Jun 1999
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This review is from: Pop 1280 (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) (Paperback)
I admire this book, but I do think it pales in comparison with The Killer Inside Me, easily Thompson's masterpiece. Still very much worth reading. The protagonist's slow realization that he is in fact the Lord Jesus Christ is both funny and frightening, a perfect tightrope walk.
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