THE GRIFTERS (Jim Thompson) - April 29/20

I feel like this should've been better than it was. There's some interesting stuff here and the three main characters are interesting, but there's virtually no forward momentum to the narrative. There's a lot of description of the protagonists' internal thoughts, but plotwise there's little to hold the reader's interest. The ending was impressively grim, I guess. **1/2 out of ****