Filmed once before with Stacy Keach, The Killer Inside Me is perhaps Thompson's best known book, telling the story of a seemingly innocuous smalltown sheriff who hides a psychopathic secret.

《内心的杀手》也许是汤普森最著名的小说，先前被斯泰西·基齐翻拍过一次，它描述了一个表面温顺实则精神变态的小镇警长。