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   Who is Ross Thomas?

   • Ross Thomas (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 five novels under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck about professional go-between Philip St. Ives .

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   What books did Ross Thomas write?

   • He is also the author of several standalone novels, which include The Seersucker Whipsaw, Missionary Stew, and Ah, Treachery!. Ross Thomas is also the author of two nonfiction books, a 1969 book that he authored with William H. Crook called Warriors for the Poor: The Story of V.I.S.T.A. (Volunteers in Service to America).

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   What did Ross Thomas do before he became a writer?

   • Ross Thomas served in the Philippines serving in the infantry when the second world war was going on. He had a great many professions before he became a writer, working as a foreign correspondent reporter, a public relations specialist, a union spokesman, as well as a political strategist in Germany, the United States, and Nigeria.

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   What happened to Ross Thomas?

   • Ross Thomas is also the author of two nonfiction books, a 1969 book that he authored with William H. Crook called Warriors for the Poor: The Story of V.I.S.T.A. (Volunteers in Service to America). The second is a book called Spies, Thumbsuckers, Etc., that came out in 1989. He died on December 18, 1995, in Santa Monica, California, of lung cancer.

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   Ross Thomas (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.

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   Ross Thomas is an American author of crime fiction and mystery and thriller novels. He was born in Oklahoma City in the U.S. on February 19, 1926. He has commonly used the pen name Oliver Bleeck to write several novels.

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   • Death Date: December 18, 1995

   • Birth Date: February 19, 1926

   • Briarpatch by Ross Thomas, Lawrence Block (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
   • Chinaman's Chance (Arthur Case Wu, #1) by Ross Thomas, William Heffernan (Introduction)
   • The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1) by Ross Thomas, Stuart M. Kaminsky.
   • The Fools in Town Are on Our Side by Ross Thomas, Tony Hiss (Introduction)

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   Most of us die-hard Ross Thomas fans never tire of debating why he was underappreciated when he was alive and too quickly forgotten after dying of lung cancer, in 1995, at 69.

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   • Briarpatch by Ross Thomas, Lawrence Block (Goodreads Author) (Introduction)
   • Chinaman's Chance (Arthur Case Wu, #1) by Ross Thomas, William Heffernan (Introduction)
   • The Cold War Swap (Mac McCorckle, #1) by Ross Thomas, Stuart M. Kaminsky.
   • The Fools in Town Are on Our Side by Ross Thomas, Tony Hiss (Introduction)

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   Oct 24, 2018 · He was a co-writer on Wim Wenders’s 1982 Hammett, featuring Frederic Forrest as the real-life Dashiell Hammett investigating a crime, but it was generally regarded as a “well-intentioned failure.”. Thomas also played a small role as, what else, a corrupt local politician.

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   Ross Thomas (1926-95) wrote twenty-five novels between 1966 and 1994, five of them under the pseudonym Oliver Bleeck. Thus, he turned to writing fiction only at the age of forty after a career in journalism, public relations, and politics both in the United States and overseas.