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The Fools in Town Are on Our Side

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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 Twain When 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 just a few hours later Dye is being interviewed for a highly ingenious position. Victor Orcutt, although a not very good imitation of a British pre-war gent, has creative talents of his own. He has his sights a small southern city, with the ordinary run-of-the-mill corruption one would expect in such a place. The canny Orcott knows there's no profit in that. His creed is "To get better, it must be much worse." He and his two associates have looked up Dye's history, and he now offers the ex-spy a mission: for two and a half times the government's bounty, Dye is to thoroughly corrupt the town. And the sly Dye takes the offer.

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Minotaur Books

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1429981679

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9781429981675

Briarpatch

A Novel

By: Ross Thomas

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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 homicide detective who had perhaps made one enemy too many over the course of her career. Unwilling to let local law enforcement handle the investigation, Dill, a consultant for a Senate subcommittee, arrives in town from DC that night to begin his dogged search for his sister’s killer. What he finds is no surprise to him as he begins to unravel town secrets, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do. “Taut . . . a superior piece of work.” —The New York Times Book Review “Expert prose, penetrating social commentary and . . . a marvelous sense of humor. [Thomas] does what only the best writers can: he leaves you wanting more.” —The Washington Post “A master of the crime thriller.” —Publishers Weekly Includes an introduction by New York Times–bestselling author Lawrence Block

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429981652

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9781429981651

The Backup Men

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The Backup Men

By: Ross Thomas

Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo team up to help twin bodyguards in a thrilling crime caper from“America’s best storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review). The twins who walk into Mac McCorkle’s bar look identical, despite their differing genders. Their names are Wanda and Walter Gothar, and from the steel in their eyes it’s apparent that their business isn’t the friendly kind. They’ve come seeking help from Mac and his partner, Padilla, an ex-CIA agent who has skulked in the world’s darkest corners. Anxious for a big payday, the twins took an assignment out of their depth, working as bodyguards for a Saudi prince who came to Washington to sign an oil deal. The job fell apart, and now the twins are being pursued by the world’s two finest killers—who take out Walter without breaking a sweat. Now Mac and Padilla are faced with a choice: Save Wanda, or join her in the grave.

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Open Road Media

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1453228217

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9781453228210

Voodoo, Ltd

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Voodoo, Ltd

By: Ross Thomas

Quasi-P.I.s Wu and Durant of Wudu, Ltd. call in a couple of less-than-reputable cronies to help solve a rich playboy's murder--then find their own lives on the line.

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Macmillan Reference USA

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0816156794

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9780816156795

Ah, Treachery!

By: Ross Thomas

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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. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation called VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery) trying to defend former intelligence operatives such as Partain from those who are trying to cover up the past permanently.

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Macmillan + ORM

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1429981644

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No Questions Asked

By: Ross Thomas

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No Questions Asked

By: Ross Thomas

After losing the trail of a pair of book thieves he is tailing, Philip St. Ives flies to Miami to pay a call on the book's owner, a rich woman with a taste for pain. Reprint. NYT.

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Mysterious Press

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0446401803

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9780446401807

Twilight at Mac's Place

By: Ross Thomas

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Twilight at Mac's Place

By: Ross Thomas

The son of a dead CIA agent is offered $100,000 for the rights to his father's memoirs sight unseen.

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Macmillan

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0312315848

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9780312315849

Out on the Rim

By: Ross Thomas

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Out on the Rim

By: Ross Thomas

Booth Stallings, 60-year-old Washington expert on terrorism and perennial drunk," is fired from his job, but Georgia Blue plans to deliver $5 million to rebels in the Philippine jungle, and Stallings, Otherguy Overby, Artie Wu, and Stallings' sidekick Durant "have other destinations in mind."--Audio cassette container.

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356

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Macmillan

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0312290594

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9780312290597

Missionary Stew

By: Ross Thomas

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Missionary Stew

By: Ross Thomas

Missionary Stew follows political fundraiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central american country. He seeks the information in order to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 US Presidential election. Haere's pursuit of the truth repeatedly puts Haere's life in danger, as the powers-that-be stop at nothing to keep the episode buried. Along the way, Haere carries on an affair with the wife of his candidate and enlists the aid of Morgan Citron, an almost-Pullitzer winning journalist who has recently been released from an African prison where the prisoners where fed human flesh--the titular missionary stew. Together, Citron and Haere face up against cocaine traffickers, Latin American generals, corrupt US officials, and Citron's estranged, tabloid-publisher mother.

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St. Martin's Griffin

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1429981695

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9781429981699

Chinaman's Chance

By: Ross Thomas

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Chinaman's Chance

By: Ross Thomas

Originally published: New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978.

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Macmillan

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0312334141

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9780312334147

The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

By: Ross W. Duffin

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The Music Treatises of Thomas Ravenscroft

'Treatise of Practicall Musicke' and A Briefe Discourse

By: Ross W. Duffin

Thomas Ravenscroft is best-known as a composer of rounds owing to his three published collections: Pammelia and Deuteromelia (both 1609), and Melismata (1611), in addition to his harmonizations of the Whole Booke of Psalmes (1621) and his original sacred works. A theorist as well as a composer and editor, Ravenscroft wrote two treatises on music theory: the well-known A Briefe Discourse (1614), and 'A Treatise of Practicall Musicke' (c.1607), which remains in manuscript. This is the first book to bring together both theoretical works by this important Jacobean musician and to provide critical studies and transcriptions of these treatises. A Briefe Discourse furthermore introduces an anthology of music by Ravenscroft, John Bennet, and Ravenscroft's mentor, Edward Pearce, illustrating some of the precepts in the treatise. The critical discussion provided by Duffin will help explain Ravenscroft's complicated consideration of mensuration, in particular.

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Routledge

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1351542141

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9781351542142

Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair

A Critical Edition

By: John C. Ross

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Thomas Shadwell's Bury-Fair

A Critical Edition

By: John C. Ross

First published in 1995, Ross provides a critical edition of Thomas Shadwell’s Bury Fair.

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Routledge

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042957505X

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9780429575051

Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination

By: Ross Labrie

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Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination

By: Ross Labrie

Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist monk, a social activist, and a poet. Author of the celebrated autobiography The Seven Storey Mountain, Merton has been described as the most important American religious writer of the past hundred years. One of the notable characteristics of Merton's writing, both in poetry and in prose, was his seamless intermingling of religious and Romantic elements, an intermingling that, because of his gifts as a writer and because of his enormous influence, has had the effect of making widespread a distinctive form of religious thought and expression. In Thomas Merton and the Inclusive Imagination, Ross Labrie reveals the breadth of Merton's intellectual reach by taking an original and systematic look at Merton's thought, which is generally regarded as eclectic and unsystematic.

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University of Missouri Press

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0826262791

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9780826262790

The Brass Go-Between

By: Ross Thomas

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The Brass Go-Between

By: Ross Thomas

When a valuable brass shield is stolen from a Washington, D.C. museum, a professional go-between is assigned to recover it

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Grand Central Pub

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0446401757

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9780446401753

The Mordida Man

By: Ross Thomas

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The Mordida Man

By: Ross Thomas

Only one man can save the president’s kidnapped brother in this propulsive thriller from the author “without peer in American suspense” (Los Angeles Times). American 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 plane to Las Vegas that doesn’t land in Nevada. Libyan radicals are at the controls, and he is their prisoner. The only man who can save him is Chubb Dunjee. A former United Nations operative with skills in every aspect of political negotiation, Chubb became famous for solving problems with well-placed bribes. Saving the President’s brother should be no trouble for him. But the Libyans don’t want a bribe. They want blood.

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Open Road Media

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1453228209

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9781453228203

The Cold War Swap

By: Ross Thomas

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The Cold War Swap

By: Ross Thomas

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel 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 doesn't ask questions; he knows Padillo has a second job -- he's a (reluctant) US agent. But McCorkle is ready to answer a call for help from Padillo, and he joins his friend in a blind journey with no inkling of what they will encounter at the turn of each dark and dangerous corner.

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Minotaur Books

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1429981660

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9781429981668

The Fourth Durango

By: Ross Thomas

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The Fourth Durango

By: Ross Thomas

The Fourth Durango is not your ordinary Durango. It's not in Spain, or Mexico, and it's not a ski town in the Colorado Rockies, although Durangos do exist in all of those places. This Durango has an industry, albeit a rather odd one-it is a hideout business, a place where people pay to find sanctuary from former friends and associates who are either trying to kill them, or have them killed. Into this Durango comes a former chief justice of a state supreme court, followed by son-in-law Kelly Vines to act as his emissary to the beautiful and savvy mayor. Following them come a false priest, and a run of murders. It takes a Ross Thomas to stir these characters into a witty and ingenious mix readers will not be able to- -and certainly would not want to--resist.

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Macmillan

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0312315856

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9780312315856

Cast a Yellow Shadow

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Cast a Yellow Shadow

By: Ross Thomas

Directed by an anonymous perpetrator to kill a South African prime minster, soldier of fortune Michael Padillo is told that his partner's kidnapped wife will die if he fails to comply. Reissue.

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Popular Library

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0445405562

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9780445405561

The Highbinders

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The Highbinders

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A nasty gambler, a purveyor of goods named Tic-Toc, and Eddie Apanasewicz, the best con man around, convene in London, where they search for a stolen antique sword whose hilt contains a priceless gem. Reprint. NYT.

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Mysterious Press

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0446401781

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9780446401784

Fools in Town Are on Our Side

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Fools in Town Are on Our Side

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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 title. When 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 just a few hours later Dye is being interviewed for a highly ingenious position. Victor Orcutt, although a not very good imitation of a British pre-war gent, has creative talents of his own. He has his sights a small southern city, with the ordinary run-of-the-mill corruption one would expect in such a place. The canny Orcott knows there's no profit in that . His creed is "To get better, it must be much worse." He and his two associates have looked up Dye's history, and he now offers the ex-spy's a mission. For two and a half times the government's bounty, Dye is to thoroughly corrupt the town. And the sly Dye takes the offer.

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Avon Books

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0380006871

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9780380006878

The Singapore Wink

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The Singapore Wink

By: Ross Thomas

A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intrigue—from “America’s best storyteller” (The New York Times Book Review). Two 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 fellow stuntman whose career died along with Sacchetti. He’s selling used cars when two thugs approach him. They’re emissaries from Sacchetti’s godfather, a Mafia don. Sacchetti is alive after all—alive enough to be blackmailing the don—and they firmly request that Cauthorne find him. The search takes Cauthorne back to Singapore, to risk his own life for the sake of the man he thought he’d killed.

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Open Road Media

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1453228152

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9781453228159

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