Roughneck - Jim Thompson
Category: Suspense
Narrator: Bob Walter
Tags: Suspense, Thriller, Adults
Publisher: Hachette Group Date: August 2014 Length: 5hr 52mim, By the time Jim Thompson was sixteen years old, he had been a newspaper boy, a burlesque show hawker, a plumbers helper, a comedian in two-reel pictures, a night bellboy in a luxury hotel and over a dozen other occupations. By the time he was eighteen, he was driving across America in a broken-down Ford without a penny to his name and his mother and his kid sister Freddie in tow, looking for just one more paycheck to keep them all alive., A bittersweet comedy of a hard-won American life, ROUGHNECK chronicles the many jobs, near-criminal escapades, and downright unlawful grifts of the man who would become one of crime fictions most enduring writers, in a larger-than-life literary memoiror wildly entertaining tall taleas only Thompson could tell it. Hard times have never sounded so good., The original was a poor quality Audible rip. I eliminates the preview at the end.
