HARDCORE by Jim Thompson Donald I. Fine, Inc., 1986 Condition: Very Good+ THE KILL-OFF -- THE NOTHING MAN -- BAD BOY -- three scathing novels originally published in paperback in the 1950s, then out of print for too many years. Jim Thompson wrote novels like nobody else, and, during his lifetime, was unappreciated for it. Now Stephen King calls him his favorite crime novelist and the New York Times calls him "the best suspense writer going, bar none". This trade softcover volume, collecting the three aforementioned novels, is an inexpensive way of owning them, as the originals now command a high premium. With an incisive introduction by Roderick Thorp. Just some slight wear; the interior is unmarked.