A survey of Jim Thompson's writing beginning with the earliest magazine work of the 1920s and ending with his last unpublished manuscripts of the 1970s. This volume is a virtual panorama of six decades of Thompson's singular literary career, encompassing his short fiction, true crime reporting, and autobiographical pieces. Includes an astonishing array of gritty short stories and Thompson's last completed work, the fierce novella, This World, Then the Fireworks (published without editorial emendation here for the first time). --