Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson's commentary on Ezekiel will strengthen, encourage, and fortify the faith of its readers. It is written from a dispensational perspective with a reverent view of Scripture as God's Word. It contains many sound, practical insights and applications, and it is written in an easy-to-understand style with a shepherd's heart that is concerned for his readers' sanctification and the glory of God. This commentary is suitable either for daily devotional reading, personal study, or interactive group study.

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»För den som vill ha sin deckare rå som sushi.«| Göteborgsposten»Den störste kriminalförfattaren av dem alla.« | New York TimesDoc McCoys skicklighet som brottsling vet nästan inga gränser. Men inte ens för McCoy finns det något sådant som ett perfekt bankrån - inte utan en perfekt flykt.På grund av en förrädisk och klumpig partner får bankrånet i stället förödande konsekvenser. Ett enda litet misstag kastar Doc McCoy rakt in i ett helvete präglat av blod, svek och kaos - till brädden fyllt av våld och bristande lojaliteter - där ingen handling är utan baktanke.Getaway är boken som alla andra bankrånsskildringar måste mäta sig mot. Såväl Steve McQueen och Alec Baldwin har axlat rollen som Doc McCoy på vita duken. Men det är mest av allt Jim Thompsons mörka, skitiga prosa som gör Getaway till ett sådant mästerverk i sin genre.I översättning av Inge R. L. Larsson.JIM THOMPSON [1906-1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Han har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker och räknas, tillsammans med Raymond Chandler och James Ellroy, som en av de främsta - och mest hårdkokta - noirförfattarna genom tiderna. Modernista ger nu ut Jim Thompsons två största klassiker: Getaway från 1958 och Grifters från 1963.

»För den som vill ha sin deckare rå som sushi.« Göteborgsposten»Den störste kriminalförfattaren av dem alla.« | New York TimesPå ytan är Roy Dillion en anspråkslös man. Men i själva verket saknar han alla former av moral. De tusen och åter tusen dollar som han gömmer i sin billiga lägenhet känner ingen annan till. Det är pengar som Roy tjänat in genom åratal av bedrägerier.När ett av Dillions svindlerier misslyckas och slutar med att han blir misshandlad börjar saker gå fel. Roy plågas av svåra inre blödningar. Dessutom väntar en gammal bekant på honom, någon som han inte träffat på många år - den mest hänsynslösa person som Roy Dillion någonsin mött: sin egen mor.Grifters har kallats en av de tuffaste kriminalromanerna genom tiderna. En berättelse om kärlek och girighet, om en cynisk värld där moralen är fullständigt död.I översättning av Einar Heckscher.JIM THOMPSON [1906-1977] föddes i Anadarko, Oklahoma. Han har skrivit ett trettiotal böcker och räknas, tillsammans med Raymond Chandler och James Ellroy, som en av de främsta - och mest hårdkokta - noirförfattarna genom tiderna. Modernista ger nu ut Jim Thompsons två största klassiker: Getaway från 1958 och Grifters från 1963.

This book is intended for those early in their careers who tend to view employment primarily as a means of earning an income. In the early chapters, the origins of employment are discussed and the viewpoints of both employees and employers examined. In the latter part of the book, these issues are rolled together, and, combined with the author's and other's experiences, developed into a "how-to" for employment success. We will even define employment success (or, more precisely, let you, the reader, define it).In the middle of the book, there is considerable material about employment freedom. It is the author's implicit contention that most employees today are not free, for they have succumbed to easy credit, primarily in the form of credit cards, to satisfy their lusts for material things. Like the Tennessee Ernie Ford song of the '50's, "Sixteen Tons," most cannot go when St. Peter calls, for they "owe their soul to the company store" except today the company store carries the name MBNA or Citicorp (ask your grandparents about this song).From the author's experience, many older workers could also benefit from this book, for, by his observation they have either (a) failed to learn certain basic truths about employment or (b) try to ignore them. To operate in such a vacuum is foolish. The truths expounded here are as basic as gravity, and despite one's attempt to ignore or refute them, they, like gravity, continue to affect life in the subsets of the civilized portions of this planet-our collective places of employment.

"Always ready, always there" is the official motto of the United States National Guard. This military branch is presented through the eyes of a child whose cousin upholds that motto every day as a member of this reserve military force. Readers get an in-depth look at what it's like to have a family member in the military. This text also explores the history of this branch, its modern-day operations, and its members' unique lifestyle. Fact boxes and photographs present other topics, such as the National Guard's tools and technology and career opportunities. By the end of the text, readers gain a full understanding of the sacrifices made by the brave men and women, and their families of the U.S. National Guard.

Britton Rainstar never knew he could love a woman as deeply as he does Manuela Aloe and be so terrified of her at the same time. It's not just that he thinks she's out of his league. It's more that the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he seems to come. A vicious dog is somehow let loose in his hotel room. He's threatened at gunpoint by a man in a skeleton costume. And when he finally ends up in the hospital, someone pushes his wheelchair down the stairs. Nothing anything like this has ever happened to Britt before--and while Manuela's never around when the so-called accidents happen, neither can Britt prove she's behind the many threats on his life. Is a rival for Manuela's affections trying to chase him away? Is there more to Manuela herself than meets the eye? Whatever it is, Britt better find out fast--before whoever's after him hits their mark, and the man who never thought he'd land the ultimate girl ends up paying the ultimate price.

San Diego in the years before World War II. James Dillon is barely scraping by working a menial job in manufacturing, trying to raise a family and support his elderly mother and sister Frankie at the same time. He drinks too hard -- just like his father and nearly everyone in his extended family. With so many people crammed into one home, sometimes there's so much fighting he can barely stand it. But if James can survive the chaos of everyday life long enough, maybe -- just maybe -- there's a chance it'll all get better. Now and on Earth, Jim Thompson's first novel, draws on personal experience to depict a hardscrabble life in the sun-soaked streets of mid-20th century California. Chronicling the birth of a writer and the plight of the working man, it prefigures the American classics that followed, in a deeply-felt, autobiographical tale that shows a writer just coming into his own.

Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't like, with men she doesn't know -- she wants out, any way she can get it. And to a man who wants nothing of what he has, Mona sure looks like something he actually does. Soon Dolly and Mona find themselves involved in a scheme of robbery, murder and mayhem that makes Dolly's blood run cold. As Dolly's plans begin to unravel, his mind soon follows. In A Hell of a Woman, Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks among his best work.

From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had before. From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to wasted teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to Thompson's chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous.

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive. A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fiction's most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoir--or wildly entertaining tall tale--as only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good.

Orphaned by a tragic accident at sixteen, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate. When Carol, a knockout beauty, shows up looking to follow the caravan of workers, Tommy falls for her almost immediately. There aren't any jobs for women on the pipeline, but Carol knows a few things she could do for the workers to keep afloat -- an arrangement that Tommy can't bear for long. As Tommy's about to find out, when you're South of Heaven, you're far from grace - -and sometimes the only way out is down.