Jack Sheridan’s pulp-noir classic, back in print for the first time in over sixty years. “Sheridan seems to be aiming at, and achieving, something higher and more powerful than just an entertaining story.” New York World-Telegram
The first man that loved Rita sparked a fire in her that she couldn’t put out. But that was a long time ago, and for a long while there, there was only a spark left. Then big Harry Marvel showed up out of nowhere one night… and the fire consumed her again. Harry didn’t own much, but what he owned he kept all for himself. And, Rita knew, he had her too. They weren’t married, but she was his woman and that was that.
But didn’t stop Rita from wanting Troy Bannock. When Troy walked down the street in his tight, faded blue jeans, one thing was damn sure… the girl that got him would have herself a real man. Rita knew it had to be her. But for all his manliness, Troy was still only a farm boy, young, heedless, standing at the crossroads of life, full of the hungering of the flesh that could lead him…and Rita.. to disaster.
Praise for Jack Sheridan
“Texas consists of dozens of subregions, many of which have prompted a novel or two. I am partial, for example, to Jack Sheridan’s Thunderclap, largely because it happens to be set in the much neglected Wichita Falls area.” Larry McMurtry
“This book describes life on the fringe of American society. The writing style is straightforward and realistic.” Reading California Fiction
“There was an ache and authenticity to his writing. Sheridan had a way of writing about people on the fringes of society that’s both compelling and tragic.” Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling novelist.
“His mythology follows in the unsteady footsteps of Jack Kerouac, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Dylan Thomas, and Texas’s own Billy Lee Brammer: writers of immense talent who couldn’t stay out of their own way.” Texas Monthly
Jack Sheridan /
Crime Fiction, Literary Fiction
