South of Heaven / Jim Thompson Hardcover *Jim Thompson's long-awaited translation begins publication. The western edge of Texas in the '20s was a tough world-- Wanderers, vagrants, and ex-convicts drawn to pipeline construction... Thompson's long-awaited first Japanese translation! Read once and kept on a bookshelf. The cover and pages have age-related yellowing and stains. Please only purchase if you understand that this is a used book.