Savage Night

Savage Night

Author	Jim Thompson
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Crime novel
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1953
Media type	Print
Pages	160

Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson.^[1]

Plot

The protagonist is Charles Bigger, who spends most of the novel operating under the alias Carl Bigelow. Bigger has been sent by a mob boss, known simply as The Man, to the small town of Peardale, New York. His mission is to avenge the mistakes of Jake Winroy, a former member of The Man's crime establishment.

References

↑ David Geffner (November–December 2009). "Soul of a Writer". Humanities.

External links

Savage Night at Google Books

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels	Now and on Earth (1942) Heed the Thunder (aka Sins of the Fathers) (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) After Dark, My Sweet (1990) The Kill-Off (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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