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Several of his novels have been filmed by American and French directors, resulting in classic noir including The Killer Inside Me (1952), After Dark My Sweet (1955), and The Grifters (1963)..
Thompson also co-wrote two screenplays (for the Stanley Kubrick films The Killing and Paths of Glory ).
Thompson eventually wrote twenty-nine novels, all but three of which were published as paperback originals.
He began writing fiction at a very young age, selling his first story to True Detective when he was only fourteen.
About the Author: Jim Thompson was born in Anadarko, Oklahoma.
A literary precursor to One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest , THE Alcoholics is Thompson like you\'ve never read him before, a pitch-black, mad-cap portrait of deviant behavior that is at once darkly comic, humane and harrowing.
Murphy\'s plans, and suddenly no one day has ever seemed so long.
But the money\'s good--until the rag-tag group of ne\'er-do-wells at El Healtho begin to wreak havoc with Dr.
And yes, what he really needs is to be under the care of the surgeons who performed the lobotomy that\'s rendered Van Twyne all but a vegetable.
Sure, the man isn\'t exactly an alcoholic.
Up to and including admitting Humphrey Van Twyne III, a patient with an extremely violent past whose wealthy family has the means to keep El Healtho open for business.
Murphy finds he\'ll do anything to keep it open.
But now that its doors are about to close forever, Dr.
Murphy\'s existence ever since he started running it.
A recovery center for the most severe cases of alcoholism in the state--even if no one ever does quite seem to get dry there--El Healtho has been the bane of Dr.
Murphy needs fifteen thousand dollars by the end of the day, or the city of Los Angeles can say goodbye to the El Healtho clinic.
Peter S.
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