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   by Jim Thompson. Start Free Trial. Summary. PDF Cite Share. Greg Beatty, Ph.D. | Certified Educator. Before Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter, there was Jim Thompson’s charismatic killer Lou Ford....

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   Dec 27, 2021 · Language. English. xvii, 229 pages ; 21 cm. "Everyone in the small town of Central City, Texas loves Lou Ford. A deputy sheriff, Lou's known to the small-time criminals, the real-estate entrepreneurs, and all of his coworkers--the low-lifes, the big-timers, and everyone in-between--as the nicest guy around. He may not be the brightest or the ...

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   • The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town sheriff who's a little slow and a little boring. Or he would have you believe. Lou Ford spends most of his time keeping the sickness inside him in check. Lou's a sociopath and has killed multiple times in the past.

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   Who is the protagonist in the killer inside me?

   • That's how Lou Ford, the protagonist of The Killer Inside Me is. I also suspect that Jim Thompson may have been that way as well. The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town sheriff who's a little slow and a little boring. Or he would have you believe. Lou Ford spends most of his time keeping the sickness inside him in check.

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   • The Killer Inside Me opens in and around a diner. A homeless man is hanging around outside, so Deputy Lou Ford shows his badge and tells the bum that he must move away from the diner and ideally out of Central City. To emphasize the message, Lou puts out a cigar on the bum’s hand.

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   Is the killer inside me a bad book?

   • The Killer Inside Me isn't a bad book, it was just nowhere near as good as I thought it was going to be. Lou Ford did not creep me out in the way he was supposed to, he didn't creep me out in the way Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick claim to have been creeped out by him. Dolores Umbridge is creepier than Lou.

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   Plot summary Lou Ford appears to be an unremarkable deputy sheriff in a small Texas town; beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes. His main outlet for his dark urges is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with clichés and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: "If ...

   • Pages: 356 pp
   • Author: Jim Thompson

   • Publication date: 1952
   • Publisher: Fawcett Publications

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   Brief Synopsis. The story unfolds in the fictional town of Central City, Texas. Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford appears to be a mild-mannered, well-liked member of the community, but his outwardly affable demeanor hides a deeply disturbed, sadistic nature. As the town's sheriff, he uses his position to manipulate and control those around him.

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   The Killer Inside Me is the story of Lou Ford, a small town (Central City) deputy sheriff who appears to be straight-laced and on the surface unremarkable. He has girlfriends, he has other friends, he does good and responsible work, but he allows no one to get close. Lou grew up with a secret, though: He has a sickness that he wants to control.

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   The sickness that returns is worse this time, manifested in a series of sadistic murders. Jim Thompson brilliantly created a first-person voice for Lou Ford, rooting deep inside the warped psyche of this distinctive character to tell his story. Jim Thompson wrote€The Killer Inside Me€in 1952 for Lion Books, a publisher of paperback originals.

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   Nov 1, 2011 · In The Killer Inside Me, America's "Dimestore Dostoevsky" Jim Thompson goes where few novelists have dared to go, giving us a pitch-black glimpse into the mind of the American Serial Killer years before Charles Manson and Brett Easton Ellis's American Psycho, in the novel that will forever be known as the master performance of one of the greatest crime novelists of all time.Everyone in the ...