Singapore Wink - Softcover

Ross Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0417052707 ISBN 13: 9780417052700

Publisher: Magnum Bks., 1980

Synopsis

Once a Hollywood stuntman until he miscalculated on a complex stunt and sent his colleague Angelo Sacchetti to a watery grave, Edward Cauthorne is forced by Mafia enforcers to search for the stuntman he thought he had accidentally killed in Singapore two years earlier.

About this title

About the Author

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!

Review

“Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense.” —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

Edition details

• Publisher: Magnum Bks.
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0417052707
• ISBN 13: 9780417052700
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 224