Chinaman's Chance [Unabridged] [Audio Cassette]

Ross Thomas (Author), Frank Muller (Narrator)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Recorded Books (1985)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000K3EA6M
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.1 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,671,189 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great story, great characters, great book!, April 12, 2001

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David Montgomery "Book Critic" (davidjmontgomery.com) - See all my reviews
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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:

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as Robert B. Parker and John D. MacDonald, April 26, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Chinaman's Chance (Mass Market Paperback)

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!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of Thomas' jewels; if not his best book, February 24, 1999

By A Customer

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.