JANUARY 2012 - AudioFile
Collie is described in his mental history file as “amiable, polite, and patient, but possibly very dangerous if aroused.” Narrator Kevin T. Collins’s plainspoken, almost folksy, delivery for this character is spot-on and adds to the tension of this psychological mystery. Collins’s handling of the other two main voices—those of Faye and Uncle Bud—is equally compelling. In particular, he imbues Uncle Bud, the sly huckster, with self-confidence and a slight Southern accent that gives a believable dimension to the character. As the story’s events go from bad to worse, Collins’s narration gets appropriately more and more agitated. Fans of Thompson’s dark pulp fiction will appreciate this performance. F.T. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
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"The best suspense writer going, bar none."—The New York Times
"My favorite crime novelist-often imitated but never duplicated."—Stephen King
"If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett and Cornell Woolrich would have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it...His work...casts a dazzling light on the human condition."—Washington Post
"Like Clint Eastwood's pictures it's the stuff for rednecks, truckers, failures, psychopaths and professors ... one of the finest American writers and the most frightening, [Thompson] is on best terms with the devil. Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell."—The New Republic
"The master of the American groin-kick novel."—Vanity Fair
"The most hard-boiled of all the American writers of crime fiction."—Chicago Tribune
JANUARY 2012 - AudioFile
Collie is described in his mental history file as “amiable, polite, and patient, but possibly very dangerous if aroused.” Narrator Kevin T. Collins’s plainspoken, almost folksy, delivery for this character is spot-on and adds to the tension of this psychological mystery. Collins’s handling of the other two main voices—those of Faye and Uncle Bud—is equally compelling. In particular, he imbues Uncle Bud, the sly huckster, with self-confidence and a slight Southern accent that gives a believable dimension to the character. As the story’s events go from bad to worse, Collins’s narration gets appropriately more and more agitated. Fans of Thompson’s dark pulp fiction will appreciate this performance. F.T. © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine
