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Ross Thomas (1926–1995)

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Om författaren

Writer Ross Thomas was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma on February 19, 1926. During World War II, he served in the Philippines. Before becoming a writer in 1965, he worked as a pulic relations specialist and a reporter. He has written over twenty novels, including The Cold War Swap, which won the visa mer 1967 Edgar Award for best first novel, and Briarpatch, which won the 1985 Edgar Award for best novel. He also wrote a series of novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck. Besides writing novels, he worked on the following three screenplays: St. Ives, which was based on a character he created, Hammett, and Bad Company. He died in Santa Monica, California on December 18, 1995. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Särskiljningsinformation:

(eng) Oliver Bleeck was a pen name of Ross Thomas. Ross Thomas and Thomas Ross are two different names ( different surnames) please do not combine these.

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Verk av Ross Thomas

Törnesnåret (1984) 388 exemplar
Kinesens chans (1978) 330 exemplar
Out on the Rim (1987) 262 exemplar
The Cold War Swap (1966) 239 exemplar
En gudsförgäten stad (1989) 231 exemplar
Twilight at Mac's Place (1990) 207 exemplar
Cast a Yellow Shadow (1967) 205 exemplar
Voodoo Ltd (1993) 203 exemplar
Missionary Stew (1983) 156 exemplar
The Eighth Dwarf (1979) 156 exemplar
Ah, Treachery! (1994) 154 exemplar
The Backup Men (1971) 117 exemplar
The Singapore Wink (1969) 110 exemplar
The Money Harvest (1975) 103 exemplar
If You Can't Be Good (1973) 101 exemplar
The Seersucker Whipsaw (1967) 97 exemplar
Yellow-Dog Contract (1977) 91 exemplar
The Mordida Man (1981) 89 exemplar
The Porkchoppers (1972) 89 exemplar
The Brass Go-Between (1969) 85 exemplar
The Procane Chronicle (1971) 75 exemplar
Protocol for a Kidnapping (1971) 74 exemplar
The Highbinders (1974) 65 exemplar
No Questions Asked (1976) 63 exemplar
Teufels Küche (2010) 3 exemplar
Bad Company [1995 film] (1995) — Writer — 3 exemplar
Thief Who Painted Sunlight (1972) 2 exemplar
Spies, Thumbsuckers, Etc. (1989) 2 exemplar
Norgold '88 Cairns 1 exemplar
chien de métier! 1 exemplar
Chien de métier (1970) 1 exemplar
Gli intermediari 1 exemplar
Any 1 exemplar
La madriguera (1984) 1 exemplar
Spy in the Vodka 1 exemplar
Maailman laidalla (1995) 1 exemplar
Kibuvitsatihnik : [romaan] (2003) 1 exemplar

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D.C. Noir 2: The Classics (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Blood In, Blood Out [1993 film] (1993) — Original story — 26 exemplar
The Cutting Edge: Going for the Gold [2006 film] (2006) — Actor, vissa utgåvor17 exemplar

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Allmänna fakta

Vedertaget namn
Thomas, Ross
Andra namn
Bleeck, Oliver (pseudonym)
Födelsedag
1926-02-16
Avled
1995-12-18
Kön
male
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Dödsort
Santa Monica, California, USA
Bostadsorter
California, USA
Yrken
public relations specialist
political strategist
union spokesman
reporter
soldier
Priser och utmärkelser
Gumshoe Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2002)
Särskiljningsnotis
Oliver Bleeck was a pen name of Ross Thomas.

Ross Thomas and Thomas Ross are two different names ( different surnames) please do not combine these.

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Recensioner

I got this book because i totally loved the TV show.   I don't normally watch TV shows before i read the book but i got totally hooked on it because it was just so frigging awesome.

But having had a brief start at reading this book, it just isn't as good as the TV show.   Pick is a guy in the book whereas in the TV show it's Rosario Dawson and i just can't get my head around Pick being a man.

So i've decided to put this away for quite a few years when i hopefully may have forgotten all about the TV show and then i'll come back and give it a read.   Probably not though.   Me thinks it's just one of those books that will get relegated to "The Boneyard" forever.… (mer)
 
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5t4n5 | 15 andra recensioner | Aug 9, 2023 |
Have to confess that I can never follow complicated con games (I still haven't figured out what happened in Oceans 11, and I've watched it several times), but I enjoyed the pace and the characters in this one, not to mention the retro-LA setting.
 
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JudyGibson | 7 andra recensioner | Jan 26, 2023 |
This is my second book by Ross Thomas. I read "The Fools in Town are on Our Side " a few week before this, and enjoyed it enough to seek more. Both had interesting stories, humorous dialogs, lots of twists and turns, and people having bad days in general.

I will most likely read more by this author.
 
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MartyFried | 7 andra recensioner | Oct 9, 2022 |
I liked this a lot. The dialog was quick and witty, the plot was complex and hard to figure out, the characters were great, mostly likable. Even the villains were almost likable. The style is a little like the old-fashioned detective novels like Dashiell Hammett or Philip Marlowe, although I can't really recall either of them.

I'm still not 100% sure exactly what happened, perhaps because I had the audiobook version, and may have missed parts of it. I did have to go back a few times, and I think I got most of it. I wouldn't mind rereading it one day, but there's more in the series of the main character, Arthur Case Wu, the Chinaman who is unlike any Chinaman I've ever met. A pretty interesting guy.… (mer)
 
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Verk
50
Även av
4
Medlemmar
3,918
Popularitet
#6,459
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
73
ISBN
398
Språk
11
Favoritmärkt
25

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