The Killer Inside Me (1952) - Jim Thompson

Category: Adults, Suspense, Thriller, Violence
Language: English
Keywords: Hard-Boiled Noir Murder Texas

Written by Jim Thompson
Read by Kevin T. Collins
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
Release date: 11-01-11
Publisher: Hachette Audio

Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he’s a little slow and maybe boring, but that’s the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what Lou calls his ’sickness’. It nearly got him put away when he was younger, but his adopted brother took the rap for that. But now the sickness that has been lying dormant for a while is about to surface again and the consequences are brutal and devastating.

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.

The writer R.V. Cassill has suggested that of all crime fiction, Thompson’s was the rawest and most harrowing;

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.