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| Author | Jim Thompson |
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| Language | English |
Publication date | 1989 |
| Publication place | United States |
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The Rip-Off is a crime novel by Jim Thompson. [1] The book was rejected for publication during Thompson's lifetime; the date of composition is assumed to be sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, when Thompson's health was in decline. Thompson died in 1977.
The Rip-Off was initially published as a heavily edited and abridged serial in The New Black Mask Quarterly in 1985. [2] The book version appeared four years later.
