A review by jakewritesbooks
Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson

3.0

(3.5) Aside from Savage Night, this is probably my least favorite Jim Thompson work. Mind you any Thompson is good, and I liked large parts of this, but it left a lot to be desired. It's his second novel and you can see he hasn't quite grasped his writing style yet. Also, there were almost too many characters to keep count or get invested in. Novels of his that have large character counts like The Criminal and The Kill-Off work mostly because there is one crime that is the trunk of the novel to which the characters hang off like branches. This book serves as a quasi-anthology, which isn't really his style (or at least the style he is suited to). Still good and still worth reading if you're a fan.