Jim Thompson is a modern classic, a recognized explorer of the dark sides of human nature; Such masters as Stephen King and Stanley Kubrick (who directed, perhaps, his best films based on Thompson’s scripts) called him his favorite author. In September 2010, Michael Winterbottom's film adaptation of Thompson's novel The Killer Inside Me was released on Russian screens; Now we bring to your attention another of his classic novels - “Pitch Night”. The famous killer Charlie Bigger, nicknamed Small, fell through the ground. No one knew him by sight, no one can be sure whether he lay low or died. But ten years later, an underground tycoon nicknamed Boss finds him and makes an offer he can’t refuse. And so Charlie goes to the town of Pierdale near New York, ostensibly as a student at a teacher's college, but in reality with the task of removing a dangerous witness for the Boss at the upcoming trial, and removing it so that it looks like an accident. Nothing particularly difficult for a specialist of his qualifications - but everyone he meets in Pierdale is hiding a double bottom, and no one can be sure that he is exactly who he seems... The novel is published in a new translation.