The Killer Inside Me

by Thompson, Jim
ISBN: 9780316404068
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Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the most interesting man in town, but nevertheless, he's the kind of officer you're happy to have keeping your streets safe. The sort of man you might even wish your daughter would end up with someday.

But behind the platitudes and glad-handing lurks a monster the likes of which few have seen. An urge that has already claimed multiple lives, and cost Lou his brother Mike, a self-sacrificing construction worker fell to his death on the job in what was anything but an accident. A murder that Lou is determined to avenge--and if innocent people have to die in the process, well, that's perfectly all right with him.

In THE KILLER INSIDE ME, Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy, and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.

  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Thompson, Jim
  • ISBN: 9780316404068
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 8.20 x 0.70
  • Number Of Pages: 256
  • Publication Year: 2014

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  • Possibly the most disturbing novel you may ever read

    Gene L. - 7 years 3 months ago

    I've read more horror and suspense novels and seen more disturbing films than I can remember. But few if any affected me the way this novel did. In three distinct scenes in this book, I found myself shouting at the book as I was shocked by what the main character, Deputy/serial killer Lou Ford did and by the brutal grace of how it was described. With two of the three scenes I had to pause due to feeling physically ill. The plot involves Deputy Ford leading a double life in small town 1950s Texas, where he seems like a pillar of the community to most, while hiding a secret need for violence. Told from his perspective, the book brilliantly illustrates the moral warping of the sociopathic mind. My only complaint is an early chapter in which Ford and another character have a discussion that amounts to expository dialogue to fill the reader in on Ford's backstory. While that was ham-handed, the rest of the book is brilliant.

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  • There's evil behind that smiling face...

    Tracy S. - 7 years 4 months ago

    Lou Ford is a great guy and everyone loves him! He's the sheriff of Central City, Texas. He's always quick with a smile and a folksy platitude or two. No one (including the residents of Central City) would ever guess that behind that genial smile and "aw, shucks" attitude lies a sadistic sociopath. Lou has always had "the sickness," as he calls it, ever since he was a kid. Now, he keeps his dark urges under wraps... for the most part. When his older foster brother, Mike, is killed on his construction job, Lou decides to get back at the man he blames for the death. With the help of a local prostitute, he starts to put in place a twisted plan for revenge. Meanwhile, the carefully created mask of normalcy that Lou wears is beginning to slip. How much longer will Lou be able to remain good-natured small-town sheriff that everyone loves? As things are going: probably not much longer. In 1952, the world had yet to hear of people like Charles Manson or Ted Bundy. When Jim Thompson created Lou Ford in "The Killer Inside Me," the term 'serial killer' had yet to make it into the average American's vocabulary. So, this was quite a shock to the reading public; a stark look into the mind of a sociopath that, even today, is quite unsettling.

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