There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

There Is Only One Plot – Things Are Not As They Seem

As the great Jim Thompson said, “There is only one plot – things are not as they seem.” And it still holds as true today as it did for Jim, and even well before him. So who’s Jim Thompson? I hear some of you ask. (Hopefully not too many of you, because if that’s the case, we really may not be able to be friends.) In short, the greatest American writer of noir in the Twentieth Century. A bold claim, but one that even a cursory dalliance with his …