The Golden Gizmo

By Jim Thompson

Book Overview

Out of print since 1954, this marks the return of a masterful suspense novel by the acclaimed author of Bad Boy, about a low-level scam artist who moves into the big time. The most hard-boiled of all American writers of crime fiction.--Chicago Tribune. Fine.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0445406712
• ISBN13: 9780445406711
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Warner Books (NY)
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

What happens to the confidence man who tries to go straight?

Like most of Jim Thompson's novels, the story turns on a series of criminal events. Toddy Kent is a man with the "golden gizmo" -- a psychic sense that can lead him to riches just as readily as to disaster. This book is textured with curiosities -- Teddy is married to a woman who drives him mad; a gold buyer for a reputable dealer, he stumbles into a steady supply of the highest grade gold and finds himself pursued by a ruthless, chinless man, a beautiful young woman, and a blood-thirsty dog that can talk and sings hymns. Most other writers would see the story fall around their ears, but Thompson deftly, gleefully pulls it off!