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Thrillers: 4 Novels: The Getaway / The Killer Inside Me / The Grifters / Pop. 1280
Thrillers 4 Novels The Getaway / The Killer Inside Me / The Grifters / Pop 1280 Author:Jim Thompson The Getaway — Doc McCoy knows everything there is to know about pulling off the perfect bank job. But there are some things he has forgotten -- such as a partner who is not only treacherous but insane and a wife who is still an amateur. Worst of all, McCoy has forgotten that when the crime is big and bloody enough, there is no such thing a... more »s a clean getaway.
The Killer Inside Me
Lou Ford is the deputy sheriff of a small town in Texas. The worst thing most people can say against him is that he's a little slow and a little boring. But, then, most people don't know about the sickness--the sickness that almost got Lou put away when he was younger. The sickness that is about to surface again.
The Grifters
Roy DIllon seems too handsome and well-mannered to be a professional con man. Lilly Dillon looks too young -- and loves Roy a little too intensely -- to be taken for his mother. Moira Langtry is getting too old to keep on living off the kindness of male strangers. And Carol Roberg seems too innocent to be acquainted with suffering.
Pop. 1280
Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women. -- Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister?
With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems.« less