Cropper's Cabin

By Jim Thompson

Subjects: Oklahoma, fiction, Carver, tommy (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Fiction, Sharecroppers

Description: For Tommy Carver, a short-tempered Okie sharecropper penned up in a sweltering cabin with a brutal father and a stepmother whose affection is anything but maternal, the question isn't when he'll explode, but who he'll take with him when he does.