This is one of those books that is supposed to be shocking, even the movie was supposed to be messed up, but I found it to be quite a tame book, there is much more shocking stuff out there. Still though I did enjoy this, at times it was pretty on-the-edge of the seat stuff. The killer is pretty dim and reading him as he gets away with stuff is fun.

This was the first book of Jim Thompson I have read, and he has many, I will be definitely checking out more of his work.