Briarpatch
by Ross Thomas, Thomas Ross | Mystery & Thrillers | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0312290314 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0312290314 Global Overview for this book
Registered by varykino of Greenfield Park, Québec Canada on 7/13/2014
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Lately I have been stumbling across some great writers only to discover they are dead!
A man receives a phone call on his birthday. His sister has been killed in a car bomb. He returns to his hometown to investigate her death and finds a conspiracy of police corruption.
Ross Thomas (born February 19, 1926, in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his witty thrillers that expose the mechanisms of professional politics. He also wrote several novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck about professional go-between Philip St. Ives.
Thomas served with the infantry in the Philippines during World War II. He worked as a public relations specialist, correspondent with the Armed Forces Network, union spokesman, and political strategist in the USA, Bonn (Germany), and Nigeria before becoming a writer.
His debut novel, The Cold War Swap, was written in only six weeks and won a 1967 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Briarpatch earned the 1985 Edgar for Best Novel. In 2002 he was honored with the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, one of only two authors to earn the award posthumously (the other was 87th Precinct author Ed McBain in 2006).
He died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California two months before his 70th birthday.
A man receives a phone call on his birthday. His sister has been killed in a car bomb. He returns to his hometown to investigate her death and finds a conspiracy of police corruption.
Ross Thomas (born February 19, 1926, in Oklahoma City – December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California) was an American writer of crime fiction. He is best known for his witty thrillers that expose the mechanisms of professional politics. He also wrote several novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck about professional go-between Philip St. Ives.
Thomas served with the infantry in the Philippines during World War II. He worked as a public relations specialist, correspondent with the Armed Forces Network, union spokesman, and political strategist in the USA, Bonn (Germany), and Nigeria before becoming a writer.
His debut novel, The Cold War Swap, was written in only six weeks and won a 1967 Edgar Award for Best First Novel. Briarpatch earned the 1985 Edgar for Best Novel. In 2002 he was honored with the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award, one of only two authors to earn the award posthumously (the other was 87th Precinct author Ed McBain in 2006).
He died of lung cancer in Santa Monica, California two months before his 70th birthday.
Journal Entry 2 by varykino at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal, Québec Canada on Saturday, November 22, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (11/25/2014 UTC) at Royal Victoria Hospital in Montréal, Québec Canada
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