War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military
accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite
man for Pacific City's Courier. Shame has led him to isolate himself
from closest friends and even his estranged, still faithfully devoted
wife, Ellen. Only the bottle keeps him company.
But now Ellen has returned to Pacific City, and she's ready to do
whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing his
deepest secret ... a painful truth Brown would do anything to stop from
coming to light. He'd kill a whole lot of people just to keep this one
thing quiet--and soon enough, the bodies just happen to start piling up
around him...
THE NOTHING MAN is Thompson at his most psychologically astute, in a
deeply suspenseful and tragic portrait of one man's journey through the
dark side of the Postwar Boom.