Ross Thomas: 48 books

In diesem ersten Fall (von fünf) wird ein weltbekanntes Washingtoner Museum erpreßt. Ein wertvolles afrikanisches Messingschild wurde gestohlen und St. Ives soll das Lösegeld überbringen. Aber nichts ist, wie es scheint, und bevor St. Ives sichs versieht, sind mehrere Menschen tot. Der erste Band...

Band 15 der Ross-Thomas-Edition Benjamin Dill - Berater des jüngsten Repräsentantenhaus-Senators in Washington - erfährt, dass seine Schwester Felicity durch eine Autobombenexplosion ermordet wurde. Felicity war Detective bei der Mordkommission. Dill reist sofort in seine alte Heimatstadt und macht...

"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...

"Anyone reading a Ross Thomas thriller for the first time is in imminent danger of addiction: One taste is never enough." - Los Angeles Times In Twilight at Mac's Place, the quiet death of an aged spy triggers a desperate race to control his memoirs, which threaten to reveal Cold...

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...

“America's best storyteller.” —The New York Times Book Review From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes Briarpatch, a thrilling mystery of one man’s personal mission to find justice for his family. Now the basis for the USA Network television series executive produced by Sam...

Beinhaltet Leseproben folgender Frühjahrsnovitäten des Ueberreuter Verlags: Martin Widmark, Detektivbüro LasseMaja: Das Fahrradgeheimnis Thomas Jeier, Null Null Schnauze - Bogey schnappt den wilden Tiger Gina Mayer, Theo und Oleander und der unsichtbare Mops Judith Allert, Wunschelberg - Das Lächeln...

Donald Cubbin, Alkoholiker und Vorsitzender einer der größten Gewerkschaften Amerikas, weiß, dass der Kampf um seine Wiederwahl hart wird. Er weiß, dass sein Assistent mit seiner Frau schläft, dass sein Gegenkandidat ein Psycho ist und dass die Wahlen höchstwahrscheinlich manipuliert werden....

The Two-Minute Warning is a novel that takes a journey with John Starr, who is an evangelist and watchman in the end times, in his travels sounding the alarm of warning that God has appointed him to sound. It is a story of revival and of the end-time harvest. This is a must-read for anyone...

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...

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...

A 2018 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title New scholarship provides insights into the archaeology and cultural history of African American life from a collection of sites in the Mid-Atlantic. This groundbreaking volume explores the archaeology of African American life and cultures in the...

An old friend draws barman Mac McCorkle into a deadly international game As 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...

With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book Philip St. Ives has no love for New York’s drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a...