Savage Night

1953 novel by Jim Thompson
Savage Night
AuthorJim Thompson
LanguageEnglish
GenreCrime novel
PublisherLion Books
Publication date
1953
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Pages160 pp

Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson.[1][2]

Plot

Charles Bigger is small of stature and in bad health, but his youthful career as a hit man was phenomenally successful. He has spent recent years living quietly in Arizona, where the climate is good for his tuberculosis. Summoned back to New York by a mob boss known simply as The Man, Bigger engages to kill Jake Winroy, an ex-bookmaker planning to turn informant against The Man's crime establishment. Traveling under an alias to the small town of Peardale, Bigger is able to move into his intended victim's house as a lodger. Matters become complicated when he enters simultaneous relationships with Winroy's wife Fay and a mistreated housemaid named Ruth.

References

  1. ^ Geffner, David (November–December 2009). "Soul of a Writer". Humanities.
  2. ^ Polito, Robert (1995). Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 9780394584072.

External links

  • Savage Night at Google Books
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Works by Jim Thompson
Novels
  • Now and on Earth (1942)
  • Heed the Thunder (1946)
  • Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
  • The Killer Inside Me (1952)
  • Cropper's Cabin (1952)
  • Recoil (1953)
  • The Alcoholics (1953)
  • Savage Night (1953)
  • Bad Boy (1953)
  • The Criminal (1953)
  • The Golden Gizmo (1954)
  • Roughneck (1954)
  • A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
  • A Hell of a Woman (1954)
  • The Nothing Man (1954)
  • After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
  • The Kill-Off (1957)
  • Wild Town (1957)
  • The Getaway (1958)
  • The Transgressors (1961)
  • The Grifters (1963)
  • Pop. 1280 (1964)
  • Texas by the Tail (1965)
  • South of Heaven (1967)
  • Child of Rage (1972)
  • King Blood (1973)
  • Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
  • The Rip-Off (1989)
Films
  • The Killing (1956)
  • Paths of Glory (1957)
  • The Getaway (1972)
  • The Killer Inside Me (1976)
  • Série noire (1979)
  • Coup de Torchon (1981)
  • The Kill-Off (1989)
  • After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
  • The Grifters (1990)
  • The Getaway (1994)
  • Hit Me (1996)
  • This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
  • The Killer Inside Me (2010)


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