I have a story in this month's Ellery Queen (November issue)
that's part tribute to Jim Thompson's wonderful Mitch Allison
stories and his Texas by the Tail which I consider an
extension to his Mitch Allison character. The story is called
Money Run and is filled with grifts, double- and triple-
crosses. Anyone at Bouchercon next week will get a copy, and
if you like conman stories with lots of twists I think you'll
like this one.
I thought I had read all of Thompson's books a while ago, but
a friend was mentioning South of Heaven and I realized that
one had slipped by. While it doesn't have the power of
Thompson's darker books, this one's quite good and I highly
recommend it to people who liked Heed the Thunder and Now and
on Earth. The book is somewhat autobiographical, the story
being related by a man in his sixties about an episode in his
life when he was 21 and working on a gas pipeline in West
Texas. There's a payroll robbery in the backdrop that the
narrator is trying to prevent.
Dave Zeltserman http://www.hardluckstories.com
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