This novel plunges readers into the dark world of Doc McCoy and his wife, Carol, as they navigate the treacherous aftermath of a bank robbery gone awry. With the law on their heels and their criminal associates proving to be as dangerous as the authorities, the couple's desperate bid for freedom and a new life leads them down a path fraught with betrayal, violence, and moral ambiguity. Set against a backdrop of mid-20th-century America, their journey is a relentless exploration of greed, love, and the lengths to which people will go to escape their past.
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James Myers Thompson was a United States writer of novels, short stories and screenplays, largely in the hardboiled style of crime fiction.
Thompson wrote more than thirty novels, the majority of which were original paperback publications by pulp fiction houses, from the late-1940s through mid-1950s. Despite some positive critical notice, notably by Anthony Boucher in the…
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