The Rip-Off (novel) explained

The Rip-Off
Author:	Jim Thompson
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Release Date:	1989
Media Type:	Print

The Rip-Off is a crime novel by Jim Thompson.^[1] The book was rejected for publication during Thompson's lifetime; the date of composition is assumed to be sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Thompson's health was in decline. Thompson died in 1977.

The Rip-Off was initially published as a heavily edited and abridged serial in The New Black Mask Quarterly in 1985.^[2] The book version appeared four years later.

Plot

Britton Rainstar is deeply in love with a woman named Manuela Aloe and the longer he stays with her, the closer to death he comes.

Notes and References

1. Web site: The New York Times. CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival. Lawrence. Block. October 14, 1990. Lawrence Block.
2. Web site: The Rip-Off: Jim Thompson (1989) . 9 September 2013 .