Six early Ross Thomas first edition paperbacks at a bargain price

Description: Six early Ross Thomas thriller first edition paperbacks at a bargain price Ross Thomas, winner of two Edgar Awards and a Gumshoe Award, is best known for his witty thrillers that expose the mechanisms of professional politics. These six hard-to-find early volumes take you from his first novel through his hard-hitting look at the politics of organized labor. The Cold War Swap – The original Avon Books paperback first edition 1967. Acceptable condition. Crease in cover. Price sticker on cover. Small piece missing from upper left corner of back cover (see photo). Mac McCorkle knew it was best not to ask too many questions about his partner's long absences from their bar in West Germany. But when Mike Padillo vanished after a fatal shooting in Mac's Place, McCorkle found himself thrust into a game of wits, guns, women, spies, double spies, and triple spies on both sides of the Berlin Wall."Wonderful. Superb. Add your own superlatives ... Enough suspense is engendered to riddle your nerves, all handled with the couldn't-care-less cool of today's operators." Los Angeles Times Cast A Yellow Shadow – Avon Books paperback first edition 1968. Acceptable condition. Part of cover is taped together (see photo). A year after his disappearance, Mike Padillo is found stabbed but alive in Washington, D.C. While Mac is attending to his friend, Mac's wife is kidnapped and held by officials of a South African nation who want Padillo to carry out a bizarre – and nasty – assassination plot. "Ross Thomas has matched or possibly topped his award-winning Cold War Swap. In a Thomas novel there are no stereotypes, no stock actions nor reactions; you cannot tell the good guys by sex, nationality, amiability, or color; in fact, you cannot tell anything for dead certain until the last chapter. Don't miss any of it." Chicago Tribune The Singapore Wink – Avon Books paperback first edition 1970. Acceptable condition. Cover has been taped back on. Cosa Nostra in the back alleys of Asia on a manhunt for a "dead man" who neglected to die."Without peer in American suspense." Dorothy B. Hughes, Los Angeles Times"Raw suspense overlaid with icings of humor." New York Times"Wonderful tense action – plenty of surprises and violence." San Francisco Examiner and Chronicle The Fools In Town Are On Our Side – Avon Books paperback first edition 1972. Good condition. Crease in upper left corner of back cover. When Lucifer Dye is released from three months in a Hong Kong prison, debriefed, 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."Tremendous." Best Sellers"Fantastic ... Astonishing ... ranks amont the best." Book of the Month Club News The Backup Men – Mysterious Press paperback first edition 1992. Very good condition. Price sticker on cover (see photo). Wanda and her brother Walter hire McCorkle to help protect an Arab prince from the most accomplished assassin in the world, but the situation becomes dicey when Walter is murdered."America's best storyteller." New York Times Book Review The Porkchoppers – Pocket Books paperback first edition 1973. Very good condition. Two bitter union bosses conduct a nationwide duel over billions of dollars in an expose of political maneuvering whose characters include adulterers, lackeys, and an assassin. "Keep your eye out for this muckraking job about labor union leaders and a gunman hired to kill one of them. It gives the feeling of being frighteningly true to life ... a book that will sell like anything." The New York Times Book Review While reprints are available for all of these titles, these first editions are difficult if not almost impossible to find for sale. Here you can get all six for less than $8.50 apiece – plus free shipping. If you'd like to see more collections like this one, visit my eBay store at https://www.ebay.com/str/billsraritiesandoddities New collections are being added weekly.

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