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Savage Night is a 1953 novel by the thriller writer Jim Thompson. [1] [2] Plot. Charles Bigger is small of stature and in bad health, but his youthful career as a hit man was phenomenally successful. He has spent recent years living quietly in Arizona, where the climate is good for his tuberculosis.
Savage Night is a tale about a pint-sized contract killer who has been brought out of Arizona retirement to do one last job for “the Man” and Thompson never gives “the Man” a name. He is just a shadowy figure, representing mobster chieftains.
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Jul 13, 2012 · Not only SAVAGE NIGHT is an origin story for the follow-up titles that bore the same name, but it's an origin story of Bible-like proportions to psycho noir in general. It's a short novel, technically a novella, but Thompson's protagonist goes through hell from cover to cover.
Nov 5, 1991 · Is Carl Bigelow a fresh-faced college kid looking for a room, or is he a poised hit man tracking down his victim? And if Carl is really two people, what about everyone around him? Savage Night is Thompson at his best, with plot reversals and nightmarish shifts of identity.
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Aug 5, 2014 · Savage Night is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.
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Aug 5, 2014 · But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify. The Man’s hired Charlie “Little” Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood.
May 1, 2012 · Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the st...
