From the beginning, Jim Thompson knew he was going to catch hell no
matter what he did. And during a childhood spent at the mercy of a
father whose schemes put him on the wrong side of the law as often as
the right, and a grandfather who knew the bad parts of town like the
back of his hand, young Jim learned sin better than any writer had
before.
From his rabble-rousing adolescencein the American Midwest, to wasted
teenage years in the seedy underbelly of the hotel industry, to
Thompson's chilling encounter with the real-life inspiration of THE
KILLER INSIDE ME, BAD BOY offers a fascinating glimpse at the formative
years of the man who would become one of the most famous authors of
modern American Noir, in the autobiography-as-novel that follows the
birth of the legend himself in the signature style Thompson made famous.