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A review by vitalbeachyeah
The Grifters by Jim Thompson
4.0
I whole-heartedly recommend Jim Thompson to anyone who enjoys stylish crime fiction*. This was perhaps my second favourite JT novel, behind Pop. 1280, and features several trademarks including a smart, manipulative, and doomed protagonist; sharp dialogue; and several ridiculous/brilliant twists.
*Crime fiction is a weirdly broad term, isn't it: this is 1960s LA noir, featuring a cast of amoral low-level crooks, rather than the murder-investigation-in-drizzly-British-town brand of crime fiction.
*Crime fiction is a weirdly broad term, isn't it: this is 1960s LA noir, featuring a cast of amoral low-level crooks, rather than the murder-investigation-in-drizzly-British-town brand of crime fiction.