The Killer Inside Me

Jim Thompson

May 2010 · Hachette UK

About this eBook

THE KILLER INSIDE ME has been a cult classic since its first publication in 1952. Also a major motion picture starring Casey Affleck, directed by Michael Winterbottom.

'Probably the most chilling and believable first-person story of a criminally warped mind I have ever encountered' Stanley Kubrick

'His ability to get inside twisted minds was uncanny...extraordinary' INDEPENDENT

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and thoughtful. Some people think he's a little slow and boring but that's the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his 'sickness'. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that.

Now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again - and the consequences are brutal and devastating. Tense and suspenseful, THE KILLER INSIDE ME is a brilliantly sustained noir crime masterpiece.

Ratings and reviews

Thriller, I'd seen the movie and loved it so I was expecting the book to be even better, you know the way books usually are better than the movie, but it didn't live up to my expectations,I thought there would be a lot more detail in the book but the movie covered everything,still a brilliant read and would definitely recommend..

Not bad - difficult to read at points due to the language used, and somewhat anticlimactic, but overall worth a read.

About the author

Jim Thompson (1906-1977) was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement, and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. Among his many novels are THE KILLER INSIDE ME, THE GRIFTERS, THE GETAWAY and AFTER DARK, MY SWEET. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films THE KILLING and PATHS OF GLORY). POP. 1280 was an acclaimed French film under the title COUP DE TORCHON.