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by Jim Thompson (Author)
4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
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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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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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4.0 out of 5 stars a rather strange, gratuitously violent piece by Jim Thompson, May 15 2003
By lazza (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) - See all my reviews
Jim Thompson wrote some fine noir novels in his time. The Getaway, The Killer Inside Me and The Grifters are amongst his famous and best works. Savage Night is definitely not in the same class but it is a curious read nonetheless.

Savage Night is a story of how a thug/fugitive enters into the lives of those living in a small college town. He is certainly a brutal character without any redeeming values (..the sort of characters often found in Thompson novels). The story meanders a bit ... in fact there isn't that much of a story at all (some talk about doing a big crime, some hanky-panky with a married woman, a suspicious sheriff, etc). But the most curious feature of Savage Night are the strange and memorable characters, most of whom are very dysfunctional and nasty.

I suppose my only disappointment with Savage Night is with what the other amazon.com reviewers consider to be an asset: its absolutely shocking ending...

Bottom line: weird almost to the extent of being surreal. But certainly memorable.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great hard-boiled noir novel, Jun 22 2002
By Dave Zeltserman (Needham, MA United States) - See all my reviews
Jim Thompson is one of America's great hardboiled/noir writers, and there will never be another writer like him. It's impossible, his background and experiences were just too varied. He wrote some terrific books, and this is my favorite of them. Savage Night follows Carl Bigelow, a pint-sized hitman who is literally falling apart. The ending is as psychotic and outrageous as they come. This should be a must read for anyone interested in american pulp/hardboiled literature. I respect Jim Thompson immensely, and hope that my own books live up to the standards he set...
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4.0 out of 5 stars Jim Thompson: SAVAGE writer, Jun 2 2002
By Andrew M (CA, USA) - See all my reviews
I'm a HUGE fan of so-called "hard-boiled" and "pulp" fiction, but strangely enough I've avoided Jim Thompson...a little like an avid mountain climber not wanting to tackle Mt. Everest. Mr. Thompson's reputation has always gotten in the way of me wanting to read him and I was scared of the possibility of my being disappointed.....

Well SAVAGE NIGHT is my de-virginizing experience of reading a Jim Thompson novel (and no, watching THE GRIFTERS, THE GETAWAY, and THE KILLING doesn't count) well dammit if the man isn't a kick you in the groin, grab you by the shirt, slap you in the face writer----the kind I LOVE!!!!

SAVAGE NIGHT follows a doomed hit-man on his last legs (and teeth and eyes for that matter) who latches himself onto a dead - end town to do a killin' for THE MAN.

Suspicions, betrayals, and desperation follow him like a sick shadow......and well, let's just say that more than one corpse lays lifeless by the end of these bloody pages.

A quick read and entertaining one...if you're into black coffee/unfiltered cigarette lit.

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5.0 out of 5 stars One of Thompson's best!
This is one of Thompson's best doomed novels. Carl Bigelow, like most of Jim Thompson's better protagonists is born broken. Read more
Published on Feb 25 2002 by Mr. Hard Boiled

5.0 out of 5 stars Thompson's Darkest Ending
Thompson was famous for his nihilistic endings, and it's hard to beat this one. His depiction of total insanity and the bloody violence he saw in endemic to the human condition... Read more
Published on Jun 29 2000 by R. W. Rasband

3.0 out of 5 stars one of his weakest
Contrary to some of the other reviews, this is by no mean's Thompson's "sickest" or "most paranoid" - "Pop. Read more
Published on May 3 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars Jim Thompson's sickest?
SAVAGE NIGHT is easily the sickest Jim Thompson book I've yet read (I'm about halfway through his creepy canon). Read more
Published on Mar 12 1999

4.0 out of 5 stars The usual Jim Thompson, just a bit more psychotic
This, one of Jim Thompson's best, follows his usual loose formula: anti-hero is hiding his true self from everyone else, is surrounded by stupid people (at least from his point... Read more
Published on Feb 26 1999

5.0 out of 5 stars Jim Thompson at his paranoid twisted best
The main character has a mission and it isn't hard to figure out what it is. His victim is a damn drunk and his friends are out to get him. Read more
Published on Jan 30 1997

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