Name: Pop. 1280
Rating: 4 (11 reviews)
ISBN: 9789062914296

Jim Thompson

Wiebe Buddingh'

De sheriff van een stadje in het Wilde Westen ontpopt zich als een wreker.

Pop. 1280

Nick Corey is a terrible sheriff on purpose. He doesn't solve problems, enforce rules or arrest criminals. 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. Still, Nick has some very complex problems to deal with. Two local pimps have been sassing him, ruining his already tattered reputation. His girlfriend Rose is being terrorized by her husband. And then, there's his wife and her brother Lenny who won't stop troubling Nick's already stressed mind. Are they a little too close for a brother and a sister? With an election coming up, Nick needs to fix his problems and fast. Because the one thing Nick does know is that he will do anything to stay sheriff. Because, as it turns out, Sheriff Nick Corey is not nearly as dumb as he seems. In Pop. 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.

Maurice FitzGerald

Wow! That was one great piece of writing.

Sheriff Nick Corey of Potts County, is a simple man, but when he is pushed to far he becomes a killer or makes other people do his killings.

Melody Izard

Kind of like if a not quite omnipotent Andy Griffith used his powers for evil and was carrying on with Thelma Lou, Helen Crump and Charlene Darling at the same time on the sly and without the interference of Opie unless you figured he was a slobbering idiot.

Jeremy Boyd

Donovan Metz

Sean gillespie 

Rjyan C Kidwell

Nick Corey likes being the high sheriff of Potts County. But Nick has a few problems that he needs to deal with: like his loveless marriage, the pimps who torment him, the honest man who is running against him in the upcoming elections and the women who adore him. And it turns out that Nick isn't anything like as amiable, easy-going or as slow as he seems. He's as sly, brutal and corrupt as they come.

Pop. 1280

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