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Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson. 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.
Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind. Show more. Genres Fiction Crime Noir Mystery Thriller Novels Hard Boiled. ...more. 229 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1953. Book details & editions. About the author. Jim Thompson.
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Jul 13, 2012 · Not only SAVAGE NIGHT is an origin story for the follow-up titles that bore the same name, but it's an origin story of Bible-like proportions to psycho noir in general. It's a short novel, technically a novella, but Thompson's protagonist goes through hell from cover to cover.
To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and the Winroy's young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is vulnerable. SAVAGE...
Aug 5, 2014 · Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.
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Nov 5, 1991 · 4.2 309 ratings. See all formats and editions. Is Carl Bigelow a fresh-faced college kid looking for a room, or is he a poised hit man tracking down his victim? And if Carl is really two people, what about everyone around him? Savage Night is Thompson at his best, with plot reversals and nightmarish shifts of identity.
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May 1, 2012 · Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.
