After serving a jail term, Mike died at a construction site. He describes their affair as unlocking "the sickness" that has plagued him since adolescence, when he sexually abused a little girl, a crime for which his elder foster brother Mike took the blame to spare Lou from prison.
His main outlet for his dark urges is the relatively benign habit of deliberately needling people with clichés and platitudes despite their obvious boredom: "If there's anything worse than a bore," says Lou, "it's a corny bore."ĭespite having a steady girlfriend, schoolteacher Amy Stanton, Ford falls into a passionate, sadomasochistic relationship with a prostitute named Joyce Lakeland.
Lou Ford appears to be an unremarkable deputy sheriff in a small Texas town beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes. In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written." Plot summary The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications.
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