I'd sit down to a meal of maybe half a dozen pork chops and a few fried eggs and a pan of hot biscuits with grits and gravy, and I couldn't eat it. I had so many troubles that I was worried plumb sick. I had it made, and it looked like I could go on having it made-being high sheriff of Potts County-as long as I minded my own business and didn't arrest no one unless I just couldn't get out of it and they didn't amount to nothin'.Īnd yet I was worried. I guess you could say that Kingdom Come was really here as far as I was concerned. On top of that, I had free living quarters on the second floor of the courthouse, just as nice a place as a man could ask for and it even had a bathroom so that I didn't have to bathe in a washtub or tramp outside to a privy, like most folks in town did.
Here I was, the high sheriff of Potts County, and I was drawing almost two thousand dollars a year-not to mention what I could pick up on the side. Well, sir, I should have been sitting pretty, just about as pretty as a man could sit. 1280, widely regarded as a classic of mid-20th century crime, Thompson offers up one of his best, in a tale of lust, murder, and betrayal in the Deep South that was the basis for the critically acclaimed French film Coup de Torchon. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? And then, there’s his wife and her brother Lenny who won’t stop troubling Nick’s already stressed mind. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. He knows that nobody in tiny Potts County actually wants to follow the law and he is perfectly content lazing about, eating five meals a day, and sleeping with all the eligible women. He doesn’t solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose.
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