A stuntman searches for a colleague whom he thought he killed long
ago 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. "Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense."
-The Los Angeles Times "What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the
streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites." -The Village
Voice "Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense
whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once." -Eric
Ambler, author of The Mask of Dimitrios The winner of the inaugural
Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, Ross Thomas (1926-1995) was a
prolific author whose political thrillers drew praise for their
blend of wit and suspense. Born in Oklahoma City, Thomas grew up
during the Great Depression, and served in the Philippines during
World War II. After the war, he worked as a foreign correspondent,
public relations official, and political strategist before
publishing his first novel, The Cold War Swap (1967), based on his
experience working in Bonn, Germany. The novel was a hit, winning
Thomas an Edgar Award for Best First Novel and establishing the
characters Mac McCorkle and Mike Padillo. Thomas followed it up
with three more novels about McCorkle and Padillo, the last of
which was published in 1990. He wrote nearly a book a year for
twenty-five years, occasionally under the pen name Oliver Bleeck,
and won the Edgar Award for Best Novel with Briarpatch (1984).
Thomas died of lung cancer in California in 1995, a year after
publishing his final novel, Ah, Treachery
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