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The Rip-Off
AuthorJim Thompson
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Publication date
1989
Media typePrint

The Rip-Off is a crime novel by Jim Thompson.[1] The book was rejected for publication during Thompson's lifetime; the date of composition is assumed to be sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Thompson's health was in decline. Thompson died in 1977.

The Rip-Off was initially published as a heavily edited and abridged serial in The New Black Mask Quarterly in 1985.[2] The book version appeared four years later.

Plot

Britton Rainstar is deeply in love with a woman named Manuela Aloe and the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he comes.

References

  1. ^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.
  2. ^ "The Rip-Off: Jim Thompson (1989)". 9 September 2013.


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