Promotional Information

THE GETAWAY is perhaps Jim Thompson's most famous novel. It was filmed in 1972, directed by Sam Peckinpah, starring Steve McQueen and Ali McGraw, and re-made in 1994, when it starred another glamorous couple, Kim Basinger and Alec Baldwin. Jim Thompson is one of the most respected and acclaimed crime writer: 'My favourite crime novelist - often imitated but never duplicated - is Jim Thompson' Stephen King. 'Jim Thompson is the best suspense writer going, bar none' New York Times. 'Read Jim Thompson and take a tour of hell' New Republic. 'If Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and Cornell Woolrich could have joined together in some ungodly union and produced a literary offspring, Jim Thompson would be it' Washington Post. Published alongside Pop.1280, The Grifters and The Killer Inside Me - all in a brand new cover style.

About the Author

Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma. After an itinerant childhood during which his sheriff father was driven from office for embezzlement; and as a roughneck in the Texan oil fields of the 1920s, Thompson became successful as a writer with the pulp fiction houses of the 1950s, writing a dozen of his more enduring novels in just 19 months. He also wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory).

Reviews

I don't read many books twice but Jim Thompson novels - due to their concise, dirty power, their relentless violence and purity - can always draw me in for a second time. Some of the most psychological crime writing ever done. I love James M Cain and Elmore Leonard but Jim Thompson holds a special place in my heart.
*Bruce Springsteen*

The master of the American groin-kick novel
*VANITY FAIR*

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*

The best suspense writer going bar none
*NEW YORK TIMES*

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
*NEW REPUBLIC*