THE GETAWAY (Jim Thompson) - January 18/20

I was somehow never entirely able to get into this one, despite a solid assortment of characters and a smattering of compelling scenes (eg Doc pursues the thief onto a train and casually murders him). The surreal final 50 pages or so was terrible, to put it mildly, and I have no idea what Thompson was thinking. **1/2 out of ****