Benjamin Dill's search for the car-bomb murderer of his sister, a detective, brings him up against friends-turned-enemies, corrupt cops, greedy politicians, and beautiful Anna Maude, in a new edition of the Edgar Award-winning novel. Reprint.
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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.
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.
"Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain't that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark TwainRoss 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.
"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.
"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. Haere 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.
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 racial politics veer unpredictably from progressive to rigidly old-fashioned. But Shartelle is the best, and the political future of Albertia is too important to be left to anyone else. If history is any indication, this first fair election will probably be the country's last. Rich natural resources make it attractive to businessmen on both sides of the Atlantic, opening Albertia up to political corruption. For his part, Shartelle is hired to make sure that a British industrialist's favored candidate wins the presidency. But the opposition is backed by the CIA, for whom murder is just another political tool.
Edd Partain, ein unehrenhaft aus der US-Army entlassener Exmajor, erhält einen Auftrag von Millicent Altford, einer einschlägig bekannten Geldwäscherin, der 1,2 Millionen Dollar auf rätselhafte Weise abhanden gekommen sind. Edd, wieder mal abgebrannt, macht sich auf die Suche, doch hat er kaum Zeit, sich um die Millionen zu kümmern, eine Reihe von Morden geschieht, und Edd Prtain trifft auf alte Bekannte aus finsteren Zeiten, die ihn schon damals gern aus den Weg geräumt hätten.
"Die Geschichte beginnt mit einem Telefonanruf morgens um vier in Durango, einer trostlosen Stadt in Kalifornien, abgeschnitten von der Welt - eine Stadt, die Gott vergaß. In dieser Abgeschiedenheit dient sie vor allem als Versteck für Leute, die Schutz vor Verfolgern suchen, wie Jack Adair, einst Oberster Richter, der wegen eines Steuervergehens in den Knast wanderte und überzeugt davon ist, daß ihm jemand ans Leben möchte. Für eine Million und mehr bieten ihm Stadtoberhaupt B. D. Huckins und Polizeichef Sid Fork Durango als Hort der Sicherheit und Zuflucht an. Und Adair bietet ihnen ein ungewöhnliches und durchaus profitables Zusatzgeschäft an. Wenig später beginnt das Morden."
Artie Wu und Quincy Durant, zwei ehemalige Waisenkinder, die ihre Lektion gelernt haben, leben am Strand von Malibu, Kalifornien. Als Artie Wu beim Joggen über einen toten Pelikan stolpert, haben die beiden kurz darauf den Millionär Randall Piers und seine nymphomane Frau im Haus. Die Ermittler verstricken sich bald in einem Netz aus offenen Rechnungen und alten Versprechen, geknüpft von den schmutzigen Fingern der Mafia und CIA ...
"Dieser Politthriller spielt unmittelbar nach dem Ende des Marcos-Regimes auf den Philippinen 1986. Als der Terrorismusexperte Booth Stallings seinen Job verliert, erhält er von regierungsnahen amerikanischen Geschäftsleuten" den Auftrag, einen 5-Millionen-Dollar-Deal mit einem philippinischen Terroristen abzuwickeln, für ein hübsches Honorar versteht sich. Seine Auftraggeber wollen den Guerillaführer damit in den Ruhestand zwingen. Stallings, der den Guerillero Jahrzehnte zuvor im Zweiten Weltkrieg kennen gelernt hat, zweifelt an den lauteren Absichten seiner Auftraggeber. Er faßt den Entschluß, die Millionen mit der kompetenten Unterstützung von Hochstapler Maurice Otherguy" Overby und den Glücksrittern Artie Wu - Anwärter auf den Kaiserthron von China - und Quincy Durant zu stehlen, da sie eine bessere Verwendung dafür haben."
