Последние издания книг Росса Томаса

Американские журналисты Дэвид Уайз и Томас Росс на обширном фактическом материале раскрывают подробности операций и деятельности невидимого правительства Центрального разведывательного управления США периода холодной войны. Авторы отмечают, что ЦРУ включает также множество других подразделений и агентств и отдельных лиц, которые внешне кажутся обычными членами обычного правительства. В книге детально рассказывается об истории создания системы разведывательных органов США, их структуре, технической оснащенности и методах работы. Подрывная деятельность против стран Восточной Европы, вторжение на Кубу, разбойничья политика в Бирме, Лаосе,…

With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job that calls for his specific talents as a mediator between thieves and their victims. It sounds like the set-up to a bad joke: A thief, an insurance salesman, and the Library of Congress call Philip's lawyer to ask about a stolen copy of Pliny's "Historia Naturalis." To find it, Philip will risk becoming history himself. The book was stolen on its way from the Library of Congress to California,…

St. Ives goes to London on a job for the least trustworthy con artist he knows Philip St. Ives has only been in the pub a few minutes before he realizes his whiskey is drugged. Instantly sick, he’s vomiting on the sidewalk when the muggers appear. He fights as best he can in his drugged state, and only when he feels the handcuffs does he realize his assailants aren’t muggers—they’re cops. He wakes in a dingy cell to the knowledge that English Eddie Apex has pulled a fast one on him. English Eddie is not English, but talks with a British accent that once made him New York’s most refined con artist. In retirement and living in London, he…

When his old boss is kidnapped, St. Ives reluctantly agrees to free him Philip St. Ives loses his first job in journalism as soon as he realizes he hates the man who gave it to him. Chicago Post editor Amfred Killingsworth is a pompous blowhard, and fires his newest reporter for failing to fawn over him. St. Ives goes to New York, where he lands a daily column and the close friendship of an assortment of crooks. Killingsworth goes in a less respectable direction, becoming the US ambassador to Yugoslavia. By the time the ambassador gets himself kidnapped, the only man who can save him is his former cub reporter. The kidnappers demand…

Thus begins what may be the most popular of Ross Thomas's unique stories. The combination of Wu, pretender to the Imperial throne of China, and Quincy Durant, who has his own colorful past, makes for a heady experience. After starting with the deceased pelican on a California beach, the plot mixes in the disappearance of a large sum of money that should have been buried in Vietnam, and the search for the missing member of a trio of singing sisters from the Ozarks. Only Thomas could have stirred this concoction with the style, humor, and suspense that captures the reader at the very beginning and doesn't let go until the last word.

Missionary Stew follows political fundraiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central american country. Haere seeks the information in order to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 US Presidential election. Haere's pursuit of the truth repeatedly puts Haere's life in danger, as the powers-that-be stop at nothing to keep the episode buried. Along the way, Haere carries on an affair with the wife of his candidate and enlists the aid of Morgan Citron, an almost-Pullitzer winning journalist who has recently been released from an African prison where the prisoners where fed human…

Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation called VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery) trying to defend former intelligence operatives such as Partain from those who are trying to cover up the past permanently.

In Twilight at Mac's Place , the quiet death of an aged spy triggers a desperate race to control his memoirs, which threaten to reveal Cold War secrets many would prefer stayed secrets. When the spy's estranged son receives the then dizzying sum of $100,000 for all rights to the work, he is properly dizzied. He is also smart enough to seek the help of veteran Cold Warriors McCorkle and Padillo, owners of a D.C. bar called Mac's Place that is both a capital landmark and a nest of intrigue.

“Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any town?” —Mark Twain Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of this post-World War II story as well as for the title. When Lucifer Dye is released after three months in a Hong Kong prison, debriefed, and handed a false passport, a new wardrobe, and a $20,000 check, his haughty control makes it clear that Dye’s career with his country has been permanently terminated. But a good agent is always in demand, and just a few hours later Dye is being interviewed for a highly ingenious position. Victor Orcutt, although a not very…

Would you be wary if someone gave you the assignment of delivering five million dollars to a Philippine terrorist—never mind from whom or why? Booth Stallings, a terrorism expert just fired from his job at a bashful organization that never admitted its mount in the Washington merry-go-round, is wary. So wary that he cuts in con man "Otherguy" Overby, who in turn involves Artie Wu, pretender to the throne of China, and his partner, Quincy Durant. Obviously, good patriots don't want to hand over all that money to bad guys. Better they keep it for themselves. Which inevitably raises the question: Who among them will end up with the money?

A long-distance call from a Texas city on his birthday gives Benjamin Dill the news that his sister—it’s her birthday, too, they were born exactly ten years apart—has died in a car bomb explosion. It’s the chief of police calling—Felicity Dill worked for him; she was a homicide detective. Dill is there that night, the beginning of his dogged search for her killer. What he finds is no surprise to him, because Benjamin Dill is never surprised at what awful things people will do—but it’s a real surprise to the reader. As Newsday said when the novel was first published, “One sure thing about Ross Thomas’s novels: A reader won’t get bored…

Росс Томас (1926-2000) - автор почти тридцати романов, написанных, в основном, в жанре детектива. Томас много повидал на своем веку - во время Второй мировой войны сражался с японцами на Филиппинах в рядах ВМС США, был корреспондентом радио и газет, освещая события в Европе, состоял советником у племенного вождя в Нигерии. Знание жизни придает его остросюжетной прозе особую убедительность.
Роман `Каскадер из Сингапура` написан в 1968 году.

В сборник вошли произведения американских писателей. Главный герой романа `Каскадер из Сингапура` Р.Томаса отправляется на поиск своего напарника, которого все считали погибшим во время съемок фильма; в романе `Время хищников` Д.Горес показывает мир преступной молодежи; `Кадреж` Д.Уокера рассказывает о поисках маньяка, совершившего серию убийств на сексуальной почве.

В очередной том сборника «Зарубежный криминальный роман» включены произведения замечательных мастеров детективного жанра.
Все произведения, вошедшие в сборник, публикуются впервые.

Американский писатель Росс Томас - автор 23 романов, два из которых удостоены высшей премии для писателей-детективистов США - премии Эдгара По.
Конек Росса Томаса - политические и шпионские детективы. Действие его романов разворачиваются в тех странах, где он жил, а реалии столь убедительны потому, что сюжетами самых популярных произведений стали действительные события, в которых он принимал участие.

В очередной том сборника "Зарубежный криминальный роман" включены произведения замечательных мастеров этого жанра. Все произведения, вошедшие в сборник, публикуются впервые.

Вашему вниманию предлагается очередной выпуск сборника "Подвиг", включающий произведения "Подставные люди" Росса Томаса и "Одиссея шахматного автомата" Виктора Хенкина.