Dr. Peter S. Murphy runs a clinic to cure alcoholics. But his charges believe that the only thing that will fix them is another drink. To this bitter struggle of wills, add an orderly who doubles as a quack practitioner, a nurse who is both alluring and ingeniously sadistic, and a misplaced patient whose main problem is his lack of a frontal lobe, and the result is one of Jim Thompson's most harrowingly funny yet deeply sympathetic novels.
- ISBN10 0316403954
- ISBN13 9780316403955
- Publish Date 5 August 2014 (first published February 1987)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Mulholland Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 192
- Language English