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Paperback Books by Ross Thomas
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| Chinaman's Chance |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| Arthur Wu and Quincy Durant, one of Southern California's most unlikely pairs of detectives, find that the local mix-up they are looking into has suddenly expanded in space, from Vietnam to Washington, and in time, through twenty years of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2005 |
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| Ah, Treachery! |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd 'Twodees' Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2004 |
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| Missionary Stew |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| Political fundraiser Draper Haere finds himself in over his head when he sets out to uncover the truth about a right-wing coup in Central America, hoping to reveal dirty secrets about his boss's opponent in the 1984 U.S. presidential... Read More |
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| Publication Date: March 2004 |
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| The Fourth Durango |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| Providing protection to a former state supreme court justice who had been framed for bribery, the California Fourth Durango team is up to their eyeballs in trouble when the judge's history clashes with that of Durango's. Reprint. 15,000 first... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2003 |
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| Twilight at Mac's Place |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| In the wake of former secret agent Steadfast Haynes's death, four mourners--including a Frenchwoman, a former homicide cop, a foreign legionnaire, and a spook--visit the gravesite and become victims in a strange series of murders, as the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: December 2003 |
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| The Cold War Swap |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| At the height of the Cold War, two Americans are runnng a bar in the West German capital, called Mac's place. One of the pair, Michael Padillo, isn't around a lot; he keeps disappearing on 'business trips.' McCorkle, his partner, wisely... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2003 |
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| The Fools in Town Are on Our Side |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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'Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?'
'-- Mark Twain
Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of his post World War II story as well as for the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: May 2003 |
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| Briarpatch |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it’s her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It’s the chief of... Read More |
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| Publication Date: January 2003 |
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| Out on the Rim |
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| by Ross Thomas |
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| Charged with delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist, Booth Stallings enlists a team of assistants to help perform the important job, but the group decides to steal the money, instead. Reprint. |
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| Publication Date: January 2003 |
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