From Edgar Award-winning author Ross Thomas comes an exciting thriller featuring Artie Wu and Quincy Durant--the leading characters in his widely acclaimed novel, Out on the Rim. In this fast-paced story, Wu and Durant investigate a complex web of corruption in Southern California.
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Ross Thomas is ranked as one of the very top thriller writers by his fellow authors, and his readers loudly agree. Two Edgar Awards, and other prizes, only complement the abundant praise that Thomas has received.
Since Thomas's death in 1995, all but one of his twenty-five novels have gone out of print. This should never have happened to the man of whom The New Yorker has said, "Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power." St. Martin's Minotaur is proud to remedy this situation by reissuing Thomas's novels. So start reading, and prepare to join Ross Thomas's legions of admiring fans.
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Since Thomas's death in 1995, all but one of his twenty-five novels have gone out of print. This should never have happened to the man of whom The New Yorker has said, "Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power." St. Martin's Minotaur is proud to remedy this situation by reissuing Thomas's novels. So start reading, and prepare to join Ross Thomas's legions of admiring fans.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great story, great characters, great book!,
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This review is from: Chinaman's Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
Lifelong pals since they hooked up in a San Francisco orphanage, Artie Woo and Quincy Durant are two of the best characters you'll come across in any thriller. Nobody plumbs the depths of corruption and works a great con like this dynamic duo of the Pacific Rim. Throw in the likes of grifter Otherguy Overby, CIA master Whittaker Lowell James, and a former folk trio named Ivory, Lace, and Silk, and you've got the makings for one helluva adventure."Chinaman's Chance" is a delight to read. The juicy, twisted tale of opportunists on the make was tailor-made for Ross Thomas' fast-paced, witty style. He had a remarkable ability of making cynical characters likable and complex plots believable. His novels are "page-turners," but they're also insightful and poignant sketches of the human condition. He was truly an uncommon talent.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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As good as Robert B. Parker and John D. MacDonald,
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If you like the combination of humor and action in the tradition of Leslie Charteris, Raymond Chandler, Robert B Parker, and John D. MacDonald, you will like Ross Thomas. Great character development. Good plot. Lots of great dialog.GET THESE BOOKS BACK IN PRINT!
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One of Thomas' jewels; if not his best book,
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This review is from: Chinaman's Chance (Mass Market Paperback)
The wily Artie Wu and the often explosive Quincy Durant appear for the first time in this novel.Throw in a missing actress, a luckless vietnam vet, a fixer connected into the highest circles in Washington, a couple of very bad guys and a fat, Tab-drinking italian killer with his two hoodlums. Mix it with a couple million bucks under the ground in the ex American embassy in Saigon and a seedy place in Southern California that is so ripe that it has to be perceived as outright rotten. Then let the master of the double and triple cross weave a plot that's thrilling, entertaining, unpredictable and sometimes outright shocking up to the very end. Spice it up with some dialogues that are so dry that they can't be outmatched by a swig of Gin, straight from the bottle. All those components make up one of Thomas' best reads ever. I consider it to be a shame that so many of his books went out of print.
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The pretender to the Emperor's throne was a fat thirty-seven-year-old Chinaman called Artie Wu who always jogged along Malibu Beach right after dawn even in summer, when dawn came round as early as 4:42. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Artie Wu, Betty Mae, Pelican Bay, Silk Armitage, Madame Szabo, Randall Piers, Icky Norris, Lace Armitage, Reginald Simms, Santa Monica, Solly Gesini, Otherguy Overby, San Francisco, Breadstone Avenue, Whittaker Lowell James, Los Angeles, Tony Egg, Chuck West, New York, Quincy Durant, Beverly Hills, Congressman Ranshaw, Run Run, Sneaky Pete, Vince Imperlino New!
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The pretender to the Emperor's throne was a fat thirty-seven-year-old Chinaman called Artie Wu who always jogged along Malibu Beach right after dawn even in summer, when dawn came round as early as 4:42. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Artie Wu, Betty Mae, Pelican Bay, Silk Armitage, Madame Szabo, Randall Piers, Icky Norris, Lace Armitage, Reginald Simms, Santa Monica, Solly Gesini, Otherguy Overby, San Francisco, Breadstone Avenue, Whittaker Lowell James, Los Angeles, Tony Egg, Chuck West, New York, Quincy Durant, Beverly Hills, Congressman Ranshaw, Run Run, Sneaky Pete, Vince Imperlino New!
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