Jim Thompson Knihy

Praktická kniha, kterou mohou trenéři využít, aby se svými sportovci dosahovali lepších výsledků nejen na hřišti. Kniha vysvětluje, proč je důležité napřít úsilí k dosahování mistrovství a jak mohou být samotné sportovní výsledky u dětí zrádné. Trenéři, rodiče i hráči dostávají do rukou doporučení, jak vybudovat zájem a vztah ke sportu na celý život. Budou-li trenéři tuto pozitivní motivaci pravidelně využívat, budou mít ve svých týmech zapálené a nadšené sportovce. Za knihou stojí i hvězdný basketbalový trenér Phil Jackson, který ji i opatřil předmluvou.

Lou Ford je šerifem na americkém maloměstě a vedle stálé přítelkyně udržuje sadomasochistický vztah s prostitutkou Joyce Lakelandovou. Když ji prakticky utluče k smrti a zabije jednoho z jejích zákazníků, syna místního magnáta, probouzí se v něm spící a roky umlčovaná bestie. Dlouho se mu daří unikat a svalovat vinu za vraždy na nevinné občany městečka, až na něj místní magnát nakonec vytáhne nečekaný trumf. Klasika žánru noir z roku 1952. Román se dočkal filmové adaptace od Michaela Winterbottoma s Caseym Affleckem v hlavní roli.

Positive Coaching is jam packed with information for coaches in any sport. The book includes over 200 coaching recommendations on specific psychological, motivational, and behavioral situations. There is a special focus on the coach as storyteller -- 50 motivational stories can be used to develop strong communication with athletes.

In his characteristic style, Jim Thompson creates a world in which nothing is as it seems. With her stunning beauty and overwhelming charm, Manuela Aloe seemed like perfect girlfriend material, but when many strange things occur, Britt Rainstar begins to have second thoughts about his angelic--or demonic--love. If he can survive the attacks of a devil-possessed dog, a trigger-happy skeleton, and a mystery person who pushes his wheelchair down the stairs, then maybe Britt can escape Manuela and the evil that followers her.

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Frank "Dolly" Dillon has a job he hates, working sales and collections for Pay-E-Zee Stores, a wife named Joyce he can't stand, and an account balance that barely allows him to pay the bills each month. Working door-to-door one day, trying to eke money out of folk with even less of it than he has, Dolly crosses paths with a beautiful young woman named Mona Farrell. Mona's being forced by her aunt to do things she doesn't like, with men she doesn't know -- she wants out, any way she can get it. And to a man who wants nothing of what he has, Mona sure looks like something he actually does. Soon Dolly and Mona find themselves involved in a scheme of robbery, murder and mayhem that makes Dolly's blood run cold. As Dolly's plans begin to unravel, his mind soon follows. In A Hell of a Woman , Jim Thompson offers another arresting portrait of a deviant mind, in an ambitious crime novel that ranks among his best work.

William Collins is very handsome, very polite, and very friendly. He is also dangerous when aroused. Now Collins, a one-time boxer with a lethal "accident" in his past, has broken out of his fourth mental institution and met up with an affable con man and a highly arousing woman, whose plans for him include kidnapping, murder, and much, much worse.

Jake Winroy had no looks, no education, and little else before he'd worked his way to the top of a million-dollar-a-month horse-betting ring. But when the state's latched onto his game, the feds take a bite and the lawyer fees eat away at the rest, all Jake's got left is the bottle and a beautiful wife whose every word is ugly. Jake's to be the top witness in a major case against organized crime--if he hasn't already kicked the bucket before the trial has its day in court. But an enigmatic mafioso known only as The Man has a plan to make dead certain Jake never gets the chance to testify. The Man's hired Charlie "Little" Bigger, a hit man barely five feet tall, to infiltrate the Winroy residence as a tenant and murder Winroy in cold blood. To Little, it seems like the easiest job on Earth. Until he lays eyes on the beautiful and dangerous Fay and the Winroy's young housemaid Ruth, a woman as sensual as she is vulnerable. SAVAGE NIGHT is Jim Thompson at his most unpredictable and deeply suspenseful, in a claustrophobic thriller of one man's fractured mind.

War changed Clinton Brown. Permanently disfigured by a tragic military accident, he's struggling to find satisfaction from life as a rewrite man for Pacific City's Courier. Shame has led him to isolate himself from closest friends and even his estranged, still faithfully devoted wife, Ellen. Only the bottle keeps him company. But now Ellen has returned to Pacific City, and she's ready to do whatever it takes to get Brown back. Even if it means exposing his deepest secret -- a painful truth Brown would do anything to stop from coming to light. He'd kill a whole lot of people just to keep this one thing quiet -- and soon enough, the bodies just happen to start piling up around him