Ross Thomas delivered 25 novels populated by colorful, chameleonic characters. Among them: “Briarpatch,” now a USA Network series.
in this dogeared stack of mass-market paperbacks in the basement, took it upstairs and read it in a couple of sittings. Pretty soon, Thomas was my favorite living novelist.”
Artie is a tall, multitalented and charming “pretender to the Emperor’s throne” of China who may appear slightly overweight at first, but when push comes to shove he is mostly solid muscle and iron resolve — especially when it comes to cheating cheaters of their money. Raised in a San Francisco orphanage, educated at Princeton, he has fathered two sets of twins with his Scottish aristo wife, who is herself “eighteenth cousin to the Queen twice removed or something.
According to his friend and fellow crime novelist Lawrence Block, Thomas picked “colorful names so that he would remember them while he was writing.” But his characters are more than snappy monikers. They’re screwed up, talented, conflicted and deeply self-interested con men and con women who don’t entirely believe their own crooked storiesnever mind anybody else’s. They are vividly dressed for the reader’s pleasure.
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