Texas by the Tail
By: Jim Thompson.
Edition: Black Lizard edition
Series: Vintage Crime
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published: 4 October 1994
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9780679740117
Subjects: Texas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Mitch Corley has a girlfriend with expensive tastes and a ruthless wife who refuses to become an "ex" without major compensation. He needs big money and he needs it fast. Which makes Texas Mitch's natural destination, since nowhere are rich men more inclined to stake huge sums on a roll of the dice. The only problem is that Texans are sore losers--and they have cruel and ingenious ways of getting back at anyone who cheats them.