Charlie Biggers comes to Pearsdale, Long Island, under the name Carl Bigelow, to stay at Jake Winroy's boarding house. Jake is recently out of jail, about to testify against some organized crime figures. In this story of shifting identity and organized crime, Jim Thompson takes the term "plot twist" to a new level.
- ISBN10 0752852167
- ISBN13 9780752852164
- Publish Date 16 June 2003 (first published January 1986)
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Out of Print 18 March 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion
- Format Hardcover
- Language English