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Law and No Order:The Killer Cop in Jim Thompson's The Killer Inside Me


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We're living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the Good People are fighting to keep it from us (KIM, 105)1
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Maysaa Husam Jaber
University of Baghdad, Jadiryia Campus, Baghdad, Iraq

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We're living in a funny world, kid, a peculiar civilization. The police are playing crooks in it, and the crooks are doing police duty. The politicians are preachers, and the preachers are politicians. The tax collectors collect for themselves. The Bad People want us to have more dough, and the Good People are fighting to keep it from us (KIM, 105)1

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