A review by madtraveler
Savage Night by Jim Thompson

3.0

The narrator, a nervous hitman hired for a job by The Man rents a room from the alcoholic paranoid target and settles in to wait for the best time to kill him. The narrator is a bit of a headcase and suffering from TB and by the end he is apparently losing his marbles. He's a fascinating character with flashes of brutality and compassion and you are never sure how much he can be trusted in his story. The ending seems sudden and perplexing, though others found it brilliant. It's good noir, well paced and short with enough twists to keep it moving and that ending that makes you re-read it just to be sure.