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.
Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man\'s fractured mind..
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.
To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth.
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.
But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify.
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 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 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
