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Nel calcolo delle probabilità, l'imponderabile va sempre messo in conto. Ecco perché il trucchetto oliato e utilizzato un'infinità di volte con successo da Roy Dillon, truffatore spregiudicato e senza scrupoli, si dimostra un'arma a doppio taglio: il negoziante che lo smaschera non ci pensa due volte e gli assesta un colpo tremendo allo stomaco con una mazza da baseball. Da questo momento, Dillon è costretto a nascondersi nella camera d'albergo di una località della California del sud e a leccarsi letteralmente le ferite. Almeno una cosa saggia l'ha fatta.

Il vicesceriffo Lou Ford è il pilastro della comunità della piccola cittadina del Texas di Central City. Stimato da tutti, paziente e riflessivo. Qualcuno in città crede che la cosa peggiore che si possa dire di lui è che è noioso e non particolarmente sveglio. Ma nessuno sa che c'è qualcosa di molto sbagliato in lui, qualcosa che lui chiama "la mia malattia" e che l'ha quasi portato alla rovina da giovane. Qualcosa che sembra riaccendersi il giorno in cui Lou Ford conosce Joyce Lakeland, una prostituta.

In this novel, Thompson's first major success as a pulp fiction writer, Joe Wilmot, trying to go straight after a stretch in the pen, finds a movie house in a small crossroads that can use a helping hand and someone with half a brain for business. The theater's owner, Elizabeth, isn't the smartest operator around - or is she? Joe and the plain Jane Elizabeth decide maybe it would be better for business if they got married. Why not?

In trouble more often than not, guilty of assault, manslaughter, and honorably discharged from the military by the skin of his teeth, David "Bugs" McKenna can't seem to help doing the right thing at the wrong time - or the wrong thing, every chance he gets. But when he drifts his way into Ragtown, Texas, things seem to finally be turning around for Bugs. Still, things are likely to get ugly, fast - and odds are, it'll have something to do with the bombshell wife of Bugs' new employer....

By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumber's helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was 18, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive.

Orphaned by a tragic accident at 16, Tommy Burwell's been scraping out a meager existence working dead-end jobs for years. When he and fellow nomad Four Trey Whitey get jobs working with dynamite, making way for a new pipeline across the deserted plains of Far West Texas, disaster ensues. In a matter of days, Tommy is brutally beaten and witness to an act of cold-blooded murder the law can't be bothered to investigate.

In a world ruled by a predatory lender who takes pride in a "foolproof" system, life is a series of predictable decisions made by individuals trapped in a seemingly inescapable cycle. Everything changes when a charismatic conman enters the scene, armed with a mysterious ability to unlock the hidden goodness within us all. Will the conman dismantle the lender's foolproof system or become ensnared in its intricacies?

Life has a way of testing us, pushing us to our limits and sometimes beyond. There were moments in my life when I stood on the precipice of despair, staring into the abyss of uncertainty and fear. But during these darkest times, I experienced a miraculous transformation, one that would forever change the course of my existence. This is how Jesus Christ saved my life, came into my heart, and became my guiding light.

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