Ellroy Reads – Heed the Thunder by Jim Thompson

Jim Thompson is now considered one of the greatest American crime writers, but his work wasn’t fully appreciated in his lifetime. By the time of his death in 1977, all of his work was out of print in the United States. Then in the early nineties, critical and commercial interest in Thompson’s novels was revived, helped along by several excellent film adaptations. James Ellroy played a small role in this Thompson revival, which I go into in the latest episode of Ellroy Reads which covers Thompson’s second novel Heed the Thunder, one of the few Thompson novels that doesn’t fall squarely into the noir genre.

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