Wild Town
Written by Jim Thompson
Narrated by Kevin T. Collins
3.5/5
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But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. He gets his first job in years as the hotel detective of the landmark Hanlon Hotel. But now that Bugs owes deputy sheriff Lou Ford a favor, things are likely to get ugly, fast--and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of his Bugs' new employer...
In WILD TOWN, Jim Thompson returns to the characters from THE KILLER INSIDE ME that made his reputation, in a virtuoso, multi-character portrait of how one man's life can take a turn for the worse.
Jim Thompson
Jim Thompson is an internationally published firearms writer, photographer, and consultant with more than five decades of experience as a serious shooter and experimenter. He purchased his first M1 in 1963. His dedication to precise historical research combined with his practical, empirical insight has yielded significant contributions to the fields of military history and weapons development. He resides in La Crosse, Wisconsin.
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Reviews for Wild Town
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Well. It was my first Jim Thompson book. I didn't like it very much though. It seemed to be... trying too hard or something.I didn't like any of the characters and didn't care if/when any of them died. I guess it was a bit of a mystery, but since it didn't really matter to me it wasn't very engaging.And Bugs was just annoying with his whininess and stupidity - and he was harassed all the time because...well, I don't know why but it seemed that everyone was playing him and he was the only one who was too stupid to know it.That and some dummy criminal got to have sex with every woman in the book... yeah, uh-huh... fantasy much Mr. Thompson?
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5For some reason, local sheriff Lou Ford releases Bugs McKenna from jail and gets him a job at the nicest hotel in town as the house detective. Bugs can't stop wondering why Ford would do that for a stranger, one with a police record of violence, but he quickly begins to suspect that the smiling, drawling sheriff has a plan that needs a fall guy.If you're like me and discovered Thompson through The Killer Inside Me, you'll be thrilled to find that he's plucked some of his characters from that amazing book and dropped them here. While this isn't a sequel, Lou Ford is again the creepy sheriff of a small Texas town and he is again engaged to sweet Amy and messing around with Joyce the Hooker ( her status is just slightly more elevated in this go-round), but the book is narrated by nervous Bugs, who just knows that somebody and everybody is out to get him.Everything Thompson wrote oozes gritty noir.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Not one of his better efforts. The style is there, but the left-turn to being a straight mystery was odd, and incidentally belied the afterword's thesis about what make Thompson unique.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5With this book I have completed all the Jim Thompson I could get my hands on. Bugs McKenna, an ex-con, gets to be a hotel detective and that's when the hell begins in this frontier oil boom town.