“The Killer Inside Me” is the famous novel by Jim Thompson, a modern classic, a recognized explorer of the dark sides of human nature; Stanley Kubrick considered this book the best detective noir in the history of the genre, and Stephen King calls Thompson his favorite author. Lou Ford is a deputy sheriff in a small Texas town. He is leisurely, boring and friendly, as they say, his guy. He spouts platitudes and is polite to delinquents. No one around him suspects that under the mask of good nature there lurks a silent and inexorable killer.