South of Heaven
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: 229
ISBN-13: 9780679740179
Subjects: Natural gas pipelines -- Fiction.; Gas industry -- Fiction.; Texas -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that some people call "South of Heaven," and the worst thing you could be doing there was laying a gas pipeline, along with six-hundred other hoboes, juice-heads, and jailbirds. But that's exactly what Tommy Burwell was doing, even though he wasn't smart enough to know better. Even though "South of Heaven" is another term for hell.

Combining a tale of escalating savagery with a dead-eyed group portrait of men at the edge, Jim Thompson has produced a masterpiece of the American dissolute.