South Of Heaven

In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that somepeople call quotSouth of Heavenquot and the worst thing you could be doingthere was... » 

In the 1920s the worst place you could be was in that part of Texas that somepeople call quotSouth of Heavenquot and the worst thing you could be doingthere was laying a gas pipeline along with sixhundred other hoboes juiceheads and jailbirds. But thats exactly what Tommy Burwell was doing eventhough he wasnt smart enough to know better. Even though quotSouth ofHeavenquot is another term for hell. Combining a tale of escalating savagerywith a deadeyed group portrait of men at the edge Jim Thompson has produced amasterpiece of the American dissolute. «