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The Grifters by Jim Thompson, Jim Thompson is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Grifters about?
Reissue of a true classic - 'One of the toughest crime novels ever' (Newsweek).Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.
Who reads The Grifters?
It is typically read by readers looking for immersive, entertainment-first reading.
Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jim Thompson, Jim Thompson
- Publisher
- Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780752879598
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Thriller
- Rating
- 4 / 5 (45 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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