Author(s): Jim Thompson

Crime Fiction & Thrillers

Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral conman. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moir Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.