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After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet
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Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he's a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle... show more
Bill Collins is young, good looking, agile and strong but he's a drifter with mild multiple neuroses, in and out of institutions, and dangerously violent on occasion. When he gets involved with the hard-drinking Fay Anderson and the deceptively pleasant ex-police officer everyone knows as Uncle Bud in a ruthless kidnap plot, everything goes to hell in a hurry, and the end,
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Creative Arts Book Co.
Pages no: 131
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure, Mystery, Detective, Drama, Thriller, Crime, Noir, Action, Suspense, Fiction
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TrevorPTweedleD
TrevorPTweedleD rated it
3.0 After Dark, My Sweet
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"I know. I remember the time I had three spine taps in one month, and the time I had the electric-jolt treatment and the insulin-shock routine. There wasn't anything wrong with the treatment, you know. It wasn't the treatment's fault that I couldn't focus my eyes or stand up or remember my own name....
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Bloggabook
Bloggabook rated it
5.0 After Dark, My Sweet (Crime Masterworks)
text After Dark, My Sweet (Crime Masterworks)
Amazing story and one of few books I enjoy seeing as a movie. Jason Patrick was Kid Collins in my mind before I ever sat in the Tara theater in Atlanta to watch this adaption. I stayed to watch it again.
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Redacted
Redacted rated it
4.0
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Good, old fashioned, noir; as bleak as all get out until the bitter end. A great group of not particularly lovable losers attempt an ill fated kidnaping. Backbiting, paranoia and double crosses abound. It's everything you want and expect from Thompson in one slim volume...and yet...This is a good bo...
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Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it
4.0
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Kid Collins is a former boxer fresh out of the mental institution when he runs into alcoholic Fay Anderson and Uncle Bud, a two bit con man. Fay and Bud conspire to kidnap a wealthy couple's son and pin it on Collins. Too bad Collins is much craftier than he appears and paranoid to boot...While I ...
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Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous
Uncertain, Fugitive, Half-fabulous rated it
5.0
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Not just suspenseful, but much more involved and emotional than I expected. I hope to write a longer review someday.
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Other editions (12)
After Dark, My Sweet (Crime Masterworks) - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson, Geoffrey O'Brien, Barry Gifford
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet (CRIME MASTERWORKS) - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet (Audio) - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet (Audio) - Jim Thompson, Kevin T. Collins
After Dark, My Sweet - Jim Thompson
After Dark, My Sweet (Audio) - Jim Thompson, Kevin T. Collins
After Dark, My Sweet (Audio) - Jim Thompson, Kevin T. Collins
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