Ross Thomas (1926–1995)
Auteur de Briarpatch
A propos de l'auteur
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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins
Notice de désambiguation :
(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.
Séries
Œuvres de Ross Thomas
Unsere Stadt muß sauber werden / Wahlparole: Mord / Nur laß dich nicht erwischen. (1995) 5 exemplaires
Dornbusch: Mit einem Briefwechsel zwischen Ross Thomas und Jörg Fauser (Ross-Thomas-Edition) (2015) 3 exemplaires
Il mercato delle spie 2 exemplaires
Die Narren sind auf unserer Seite: (The Fools in Town are on Our Side) (German Edition) 1 exemplaire
chien de métier! 1 exemplaire
Gli intermediari 1 exemplaire
Any 1 exemplaire
Norgold '88 Cairns 1 exemplaire
Jubilee History of Annfield Plain Industrial Co-operative Society ltd. 1870 to 1920 (2022) 1 exemplaire
The Classic Robert Logan Jack Map Collection 1 exemplaire
Spy in the Vodka 1 exemplaire
Smlouva bez podpisu 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The New Mystery: The International Association of Crime Writers' Essential Crime Writing of the Late 20th Century (1993) — Contributeur — 62 exemplaires, 1 critique
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Thomas, Ross
- Autres noms
- Bleeck, Oliver (pseudonym)
- Date de naissance
- 1926-02-16
- Date de décès
- 1995-12-18
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Santa Monica, California, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- California, USA
- Professions
- public relations specialist
political strategist
union spokesman
reporter
soldier - Prix et distinctions
- Gumshoe Award (Lifetime Achievement, 2002)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- 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.
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Edgar Award (2)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 51
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 3,978
- Popularité
- #6,342
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 74
- ISBN
- 398
- Langues
- 11
- Favoris
- 25
The novel was published in 1983 thus the U.S. government in power is quite Reaganesque and the dilemma it finds itself in not unlike (prescience on Thomas' part) Iran-Contra. The McGuffin here is intriguing--the incompeents of the CIA and the FBI want to silence anybody who can tell the tale of our goverment's atrocities. And "tell" is the correct word. None of the evidence is written down but there are a number of participants who can tell the story.
There is no other writer like Ross Thomas and no other novel like Missionary Stew (or most of his novels for that matter). Treat yourself to two nights of amazing reading. While he exposes the practices of our government with comedic effect, he also constructs a novel of inter-locking cliff hangers that keep you flipping pages long after you should have grabbed your teddy bear and gone to sleep. (extract from Ed Gorman's blog)… (plus d'informations)