New Releases by Jim Thompson

Südlich vom Himmel: Für die einen ist das die Hölle, für andere die harten Ölbohrarbeiten unter der Sonne von Texas. So eine Geschichte erzählt der junge Tommy Burwell, der bei einer Ölgesellschaft anheuert. Für Tommy beginnt eine harsche Zeit, denn sein alter Kumpel Four Trey Whitey setzt ihn für Sprengarbeiten ein. In diesem von hemmungsloser Gewalt geprägten Milieu muss Tommy sich seinen Platz erkämpfen. Er lebt ein Leben in Blut, Schweiß und Tränen. Als die Brüder seiner Freundin Carol planen, die Lohnkasse zu rauben, wird es eng für Tommy ... »Jim Thompson ist der beste Spannungsautor, keine Diskussion!« (The New York Times) »Seine besten Geschichten gehen weit über das Genre hinaus, nicht nur weil sie vom Mord erzählen aus der Perspektive der Täter, sondern weil diese Täter sich zu ihren Taten eine ganze Philosophie erfinden, eine Theologie des Mordes und die Moral dazu.« (Der Spiegel) »Oft kopiert, nie erreicht - Jim Thompson ist mein liebster Krimiautor.« (Stephen King)

Hace tiempo que Frank Dillon rueda cuesta abajo. Trabaja como vendedor a domicilio por un sueldo miserable, bebe mucho más de la cuenta y tiene una esposa a la que no soporta. En su constante vagabundeo puerta a puerta, una noche lluviosa encuentra a Mona Farrell, una hermosa joven que se prostituye obligada por su tía. La chica está desesperada por liberarse de ese yugo y huir con el dinero que esconde la anciana mujer. Gracias a Mona, Dillon ve una oportunidad única para que cambie su suerte.

A la pequeña localidad de Peardale llega un hombre de aspecto inofensivo haciéndose pasar por estudiante universitario. En realidad, es un despiadado asesino a sueldo contratado para acabar con la vida de un testigo clave en un futuro juicio contra la mafia de las apuestas. Para él matar es muy fácil, pero este encargo es extremadamente delicado, porque no tiene que parecer un asesinato. El más mínimo error lo condenará a algo más terrorífico que el fracaso. Una de las obras más angustiosas de Jim Thompson.

William Collins se ha escapado de una institución mental. Es un hombre muy atractivo y agradable, pero, si se meten con él, puede convertirse en un sujeto muy peligroso. En su huida hacia ninguna parte, conoce a una mujer enigmática y a un timador que le proponen un negocio: secuestrar a un muchacho y hacerse ricos con el rescate. Collins duda si cometer el crimen o no. Aunque le tienta la perspectiva de continuar junto a la mujer, tiene que andarse con cuidado, porque sabe que en cualquier momento puede ser víctima de la traición. Y eso podría desencadenar su ira.

Ganarse la vida timando a gente tiene sus recompensas, pero también entraña sus riesgos. Y esta vez a Roy Dillon le ha tocado pagar. Un dependiente le ha pillado in fraganti y le ha dado un golpe que le ha causado una hemorragia interna. Roy no se da cuenta de la gravedad del accidente, tampoco su amante. Solo hay una persona que ha sabido adivinar que está a las puertas de la muerte: Lilly Dillon, su madre, que trabaja para la mafia y con quien ha mantenido siempre una relación tormentosa marcada por el egoísmo y la supervivencia. El reencuentro los lleva, junto con Moira, con la que forman un extraño trío, a hacer de la estafa, el juego sucio y el crimen su único modo de vida válido. y nadie puede adivinar dónde ponen el límite y quién está a salvo. Los timadores es una de las mejores novelas jamás escritas sobre el arte de la estafa, una historia de engaño y traición tramada con el pulso de un genio.

»Der Tod war da – und er roch gut.« In die finstere Nacht ist eines von Thompsons eindringlichsten Werken: eine gnadenlose Psychostudie über einen Profikiller, der bei seinem letzten Auftrag mehr und mehr die Kontrolle verliert und seinem blutigen Untergang entgegensteuert.

"Gizmo" is the GI term for the unidentifiable -- and that''s the way that Toddy Kent has begun to think of the reasons behind the rapid swing of his days. Somehow, Kent seems always to find himself regularly confronted with The Big Break every man would kill for -- only to see it slip through his fingers. Kent''s grinding out a paycheck buying gold on the cheap and selling it for the slimmest of profits when he stumbles into his latest, almost mythical discovery -- pure, unadulterated gold in the form of a priceless watch he didn''t exactly mean to steal. Soon Kent finds himself at the center of a whirlwind of danger involving everyone from the woman he can''t seem to shake, bail bondsmen who get word of Kent''s discovery, the Treasury Department, his pawnbroker, and a devious old man with a dog that may or may not be able to speak English, in a rip-roaring comedy of errors and would-you-believe-it bad luck unlike anything you''ve ever read. Who ever knew one lousy watch could bring so much trouble? And how many times can Kent avoid getting killed before his luck runs out for good?

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.

Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he''d worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state''s latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake''s got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly. Jake''s to be the top witness in a major case against organized crime -- if he hasn''t already kicked the bucket before the trial has its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify. The Man''s hired Charlie "Little" Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood. 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 Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man''s fractured mind.

Tommy Carver may be every inch the angry, rebellious young man his teachers and parents accuse him of being. But sometimes, there are reasons for a fury like Tommy''s. Tommy''s relationship with Donna, the daughter of a man he hates almost as much as his own father, has led to more outbursts than anything else in Tommy''s firecracker existence. With her unearthly beauty and a passion that rivals Tommy''s own, he couldn''t help but fall for her. But as everybody knows, the stories of star-crossed lovers never have happy endings -- especially not with explosive parties like these. Cropper''s Cabin is Jim Thompson''s hair-raising thriller of what no writer has known better before or since -- the hardscrabble existence of small-town American lives set to blow.

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.

An introduction to the physical characteristics, behavior, range, habitat and conservation status of lions. Each book is full of factual information, color photographs as well as a glossary and links to conservation organization organizations.

Jatkoa Lumienkelit-maailmanmenestykselleYlikomisario Kari Vaara on muuttanut Kate-vaimoineen Kittilästä Helsinkiin Sufia Elmin tapauksen jälkeen. Vaaran onnistui selvittää somalialaisfilmitähden murha, mutta hinta oli kova: viisi kuollutta, kaksi leskeä, seitsemän orpolasta. Ja Katen keskenmeno, josta Vaara syyttää itseään.Pakkasen saartamassa Helsingissä Kari Vaara aloittaa työnsä murharyhmässä , Helsingin poliisin väkivaltarikosyksikössä. Hän saa selvitettäväkseen sotaveteraani Arvid Lahtisen tapauksen. Epäillään, että 90-vuotias Lahtinen palveli jatkosodassa Gestapon ja Suomen valtiollisen poliisin Lappiin perustamassa keskitysleirissä. Saksa vaatii Arvidia luovutettavaksi oikeudenkäyntiin, ja Suomen sisäministeri haluaa Vaaran pitävän huolen siitä, ettei Suomi-kuva kärsi tapauksesta.Toisaalla seurapiirikaunotar Iisa Filippov löydetään hengiltä kidutettuna. Sekä hänen rakastajansa että aviomiehensä saattavat olla syyllisiä, mutta miksi itse poliisiylijohtaja Ivalo haluaa puuttua tavanomaiseen henkirikokseen? Kun Arvid Lahtinen vielä astuu jämerästi kuvaan, mennyt ja nykyinen kohtaavat tavalla, jota kukaan ei osannut odottaa.Tutustu kirjaan osoitteessa: http://lue.wsoy.fi/kylmakuolema/"u003ehttp://lue.wsoy.fi/kylmakuolema/u003eArvosteluotteita Kirjailijan ainutlaatuinen mielikuvituksen lento yhdistettynä runsaan lähdeaineiston käyttöön takaa lopputuloksen, joka ei jätä kylmäksi. Savon Sanomat Sujuvasti kirjoittava Thompson on maailmanluokan kirjailija, joka sattuu asumaan Suomessa. Satakunnan Kansa Kirjan lopussa Thompson jättää oven niin katalasti raolleen, että lisää on tulossa, ja toivottavasti pian. Juha Sihto, Aamulehti Tämän kirjan perusteella Kari Vaara sijoittuu kiistatta poliisissa toimivien romaanihahmojen eliittiin. Mauri Mäkynen, Salon Seudun Sanomat Synkkää laatua Pertti Ehrnrooth, Keskisuomalainen

"Yo sólo soy un sheriff del sur" declara Nick Corey, un tipo en apariencia lerdo y vago que no soporta a su mujer ni a su cuñado, cuya máxima es que sólo se detiene a un individuo cuando no hay más remedio, y eso siempre que sea un don nadie. Todos en Potts County -un lugar imaginario en la América profunda, con una población de 1.280 habitantes- están convencidos de su apatía y su simplicidad. Pero pronto el lector se dará cuenta de lo astuto que es Corey. Su deseo de ser reelegido para el cargo de sheriff hace que su comportamiento no tenga límites ni conozca escrúpulos. Poco a poco, la idea de deshacerse de todos aquellos que se interpongan en su camino va tomando cuerpo. El protagonista expone en primera persona los hechos sin inmutarse, pues en su paranoia llega a creerse elegido para limpiar de escoria el lugar.

It is now over one hundred years since the Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles, California, and with that the beginning of the Pentecostal movement. Some sixty years later we have the beginning of the Charismatic Movement as churches in the mainline denominations started to adopt aspects of Pentecostal theology and practice. Since these beginnings the subject of prophecy has been catapulted high up the agenda for evangelicals. What is the nature of prophecy? How can the true be distinguished from the false? What is the relation between the prophecy of the old and new testaments? And especially, should we expect that the prophetic gift that was given to the New Testament churches is still to be experienced by the churches of today?

Practical, complete coverage of game design basics from design process to production This full-color, structured coursebook offers complete coverage of game design basics, focusing on design rather than computer programming. Packed with exercises, assignments, and step-by-step instructions, it starts with an overview of design theory, then progresses to design processes, and concludes with coverage of design production. Jim Thompson, Barnaby Berbank-Green, and Nic Cusworth (London, UK) are computer game designers and lecturers in animation and computer game design.

This structured course book is the perfect introduction to the exhilarating world of game design. Richly illustrated with screengrabs and artwork, the book includes step-by-step tutorials that present all aspects of designing and developing dynamic computer games. Including practical exercises and assignments.

The Double-Goal Coach is filled with powerful coaching tools based on Jim Thompson''s Positive Coaching Alliance. These strategies reflect the "best-practices" of elite coaches and the latest research in sports psychology.Hundreds of workshops have shaped these tools for maximum effectiveness and ease of use. The lessons and activities can be used in the very next practice to make sports fun and to get the best from players. The Double-Goal Coach provides the framework for coaches and parents to transform youth sports so sports can transform youth -- allowing young athletes to enjoy sports while learning valuable life lessons.

The years that followed the bloody Great War, which divided the nation, up through the start of the twentieth century were a remarkable era of growth and prosperity for the towns and villages of Cape Ann. Swift-sailing schooners manned by hardy and able seamen from the fisheries of Gloucester ranged far out into the Atlantic. Millions of tons of granite laboriously cut from the bountiful quarries of Rockport were shipped to ports near and far. Essex shipyards, fueled by the demands of the Gloucester fisheries and the Rockport granite industries, turned out new and larger ships in even greater numbers. Tourism became a major industry, as dozens of the famous and grand North shore hotels were erected along the shores of Gloucester, Rockport, Magnolia, and Manchester-by-the-Sea. Coincidentally, the years from 1865 to the early twentieth century were a time when stereo photography and stereoscopic images, especially stereoview cards, enjoyed immense popularity. Cape Ann was fortunate to have several outstanding stereo photographers and publishers during this grand era, and they produced many excellent views of the Cape''s natural wonders, its commercial activities, and the life and times of its industrious townspeople.

This guide to food allergy relief offers information on safe effective treatments for gluten sensitivity, celiac disease, asthma and many other types of illness. With its explanations on causes of allergies and the clinical, and natural treatments available, this guide aims to alleviate fears and misconceptions surrounding food allergies, while offering practical advice.