The Nothing Man

The Nothing Man
First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print

The Nothing Man is a 1953 novel by Jim Thompson.^[1]

Plot

War has left Clinton Brown permanently disfigured by a terrible military accident. He works as a rewrite man for Pacific City's Courier newspaper. Brown's wife Ellen returns to Pacific City, ready to do whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing his deepest secret.

References

^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels

Now and on Earth (1942)
Heed the Thunder (1946)
Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
Cropper's Cabin (1952)
Recoil (1953)
The Alcoholics (1953)
Savage Night (1953)
Bad Boy (1953)
The Criminal (1953)
The Golden Gizmo (1954)
Roughneck (1954)
A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
A Hell of a Woman (1954)
The Nothing Man (1954)
After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
The Kill-Off (1957)
Wild Town (1957)
The Getaway (1958)
The Transgressors (1961)
The Grifters (1963)
Pop. 1280 (1964)
Texas by the Tail (1965)
South of Heaven (1967)
Child of Rage (1972)
King Blood (1973)
Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
The Rip-Off (1989)

Films

The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Getaway (1972)
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Série noire (1979)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
The Kill-Off (1989)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
The Grifters (1990)
The Getaway (1994)
Hit Me (1996)
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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