
Lou Ford appears to be an unremarkable deputy sheriff in a small Texas town beneath this facade, however, he is a cunning, depraved sociopath with sadistic sexual tastes.

In the introduction to the anthology Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s, it is described as "one of the most blistering and uncompromising crime novels ever written." Plot summary The Killer Inside Me is a 1952 novel by American writer Jim Thompson published by Fawcett Publications.
