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Bad Boys
First edition
Author	Jim Thompson
Language	English
Publisher	Lion Books
Publication date	1953
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print

Bad Boy is a 1953 autobiography by Jim Thompson, an American crime novelist.^[1] It covers his life during his youth in Texas and Oklahoma.

Thompson's autobiography continues in the release of his book Roughneck (1954).

References

^ Block, Lawrence (October 14, 1990). "CRIME/MYSTERY; A Tale of Pulp and Passion: The Jim Thompson Revival". The New York Times.

Works by Jim Thompson

Novels

Now and on Earth (1942)
Heed the Thunder (1946)
Nothing More Than Murder (1949)
The Killer Inside Me (1952)
Cropper's Cabin (1952)
Recoil (1953)
The Alcoholics (1953)
Savage Night (1953)
Bad Boy (1953)
The Criminal (1953)
The Golden Gizmo (1954)
Roughneck (1954)
A Swell-Looking Babe (1954)
A Hell of a Woman (1954)
The Nothing Man (1954)
After Dark, My Sweet (1955)
The Kill-Off (1957)
Wild Town (1957)
The Getaway (1958)
The Transgressors (1961)
The Grifters (1963)
Pop. 1280 (1964)
Texas by the Tail (1965)
South of Heaven (1967)
Child of Rage (1972)
King Blood (1973)
Fireworks: The Lost Writings of Jim Thompson (1988)
The Rip-Off (1989)

Films

The Killing (1956)
Paths of Glory (1957)
The Getaway (1972)
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Série noire (1979)
Coup de Torchon (1981)
The Kill-Off (1989)
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
The Grifters (1990)
The Getaway (1994)
Hit Me (1996)
This World, Then the Fireworks (1997)
The Killer Inside Me (2010)

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