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  • The Cold War Swap

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - McCorkle and Padillo Mysteries
    The Edgar Award–winning debut novel from "America's best storyteller" about a man drawn into espionage by his mysterious business partner ( The New York Times Book Review ).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 ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Briarpatch

    A Novel

    by Ross Thomas ...
    A cop is car-bombed in Texas—and her brother comes from Capitol Hill to investigate—in this Edgar Award winner by "one of the best storytellers around" ( The New York Times Book Review).A long-distance call from his small Texas hometown on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister Felicity—born on the same day exactly ten years later—has died in a car bomb explosion. She was a ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Brass Go-Between

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Series Book 1 - The Philip St. Ives Mysteries
    To recover an African artifact, St. Ives will trade $250,000—or his lifePhilip St. Ives is the kind of man who can convince a vice cop and a paroled mobster to sit down to a hand of poker. Once he was a reporter with a daily column, a fat Rolodex, and a reputation for indifference to criminal behavior. Now he is a go-between, a professional mediator between thieves and the people they rip off. For ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Fools in Town Are on Our Side

    by Ross Thomas ...
    "Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark TwainWhen Lucifer Dye is released from three months in a Hong Kong prison, debriefed, handed a false passport, a new wardrobe and a $20,000 check, his haughty control makes it clear that Dye's career with his country has been permanently terminated. But a good agent is always in demand, and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Ah, Treachery!

    by Ross Thomas ...
    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 hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Eighth Dwarf

    by Ross Thomas ...
    An ex-spy and his sidekick hunt for a rogue assassin of Nazi war criminals—"Thomas is without peer in American suspense" ( Los Angeles Times).Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World War II's end, beats the ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cast a Yellow Shadow

    by Ross Thomas ...
    An old friend draws barman Mac McCorkle into a deadly international gameAs the saying goes, you can’t pick your friends. If you could, Mac McCorkle would disown Padilla. They owned a bar together in Bonn, the West German capital, and stayed partners even after Padilla’s sideline as a CIA operative got the bar blown up. Padilla was thought to be dead and erased from the CIA’s files—but now he’s ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Seersucker Whipsaw

    by Ross Thomas ...
    An old-school Southerner is recruited to run a political campaign in a dangerous African electionClinton Shartelle doesn’t seem like a good choice to run a political campaign in Albertia. For one thing, he’s American, and Albertia is a small coastal republic in Africa, about to be cut loose from the English Crown. For another, Shartelle is Southern and fiercely proud of it, and his ideas about ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Mordida Man

    by Ross Thomas ...
    A freelance fixer comes out of retirement to rescue the President’s kidnapped brotherAmerican agents abduct a high-profile terrorist in broad daylight on the streets of London, subduing him with a tranquilizer. He dies a few hours later on a flight back to Washington, DC, and the body is dropped into the ocean.Hours later, the President’s brother—a political powerhouse in his own right—boards a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Singapore Wink

    by Ross Thomas ...
    A stuntman searches for a colleague whom he thought he killed long agoTwo pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies.Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Procane Chronicle

    by Ross Thomas ...
    Series series The Philip St. Ives Mysteries
    A bungled hand-off lands St. Ives in jail on suspicion of murderIt’s three in the morning, and Philip St. Ives has come to the all-night Laundromat to meet a thief. His laundry bag isn’t carrying dirty clothing—it’s stuffed with $90,000 cash. But he finds his contact, Bobby Boykins, in no state to talk. Bobby has been beaten, strangled, and stuffed behind a washing machine; Philip is inspecting ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The 90 Days Paleo Diet Revolution - Lose 40 Pounds Or More The First 90 Days

    by Thomas Ross ...
    In this book Thomas Ross and Margarete McCallahan brought forward something extremely powerful to help you with the virtually effortless removal of formerly hard-to-remove stubborn, bulging deposits of fat. The recipes are all new and created by chefs from across the globe just for this book, to help you to lose that weight deliciously.In fact, this diet is so strong that it will, depending upon ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus