A review by adam_mcphee
A Hell of a Woman by Jim Thompson

3.0

Similar to Hamilton's [b:Hangover Square|133238|Hangover Square|Patrick Hamilton|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1362955226s/133238.jpg|865124], a nice guy's (read: repugnant misogynist's) personality cracks in two as he travels deeper and deeper into a world he can't handle. Though Hamilton's character mostly just contemplates murder, this is a Thompson novel, so the list of crimes include embezzlement, repo work, sex trafficking, murdering an old woman, murdering an immigrant, murdering a woman and throwing her body into a coal train, bank robbery, baby kidnapping (maybe), blackmail, and so on...