Ross Thomas
Birth date: February 19, 1926
Died: December 18, 1995
Ross Thomas's Books
I gave up on page 66...too slow and boring with characters I didn't really care about.
I gave up on page 66...too slow and boring with characters I didn't really care about.
A quick, entertaining read with a fairly convoluted plot but the main characters more than make up for it.
No Questions Asked is a solid mystery/suspense. It's probably not going to stick with me over the long term, but I enjoyed reading it, and will look for more by the same author. There seems to be a whole minigenre of non-detective detectives - Bernie Rhodenbarr from Lawrence Block's Burglar Who...se...
The author effortlessly mixes espionage, small town corruption, and war time Shanghai into a highly readable crime novel.