Cole Thompson

An oil rig noir

Cole Thompson was born in Abilene Texas. He grew up among oil riggers, then went to Stanford University on a golf scholarship. Chocolate Lizards is his first novel.

Chocolate Lizards

PRAISE FOR COLE THOMPSON

'Chocolate Lizards is an extravagant and very entertaining example of West Texas oil-field gothic. It's as if the Castle of Otranto had been moved to Abilene, Texas, and peopled with refugees from Monty Python' - Larry McMurtry

'Driving through West Texas, you'd swear the pump-jacks grow right out of the ground. They are as much a part of the scenery as shinnery brush. Drillers and roughnecks live by their own set of rules--a breed apart. Cole Thompson has written a great book and I think he captured it all, even the insanity' - Waylon Jennings

Order Chocolate Lizards by Cole Thompson

Chocolate Lizards by Cole Thompson, 256pp, £6.99, ISBN: 1 901982 72 6