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The Eighth Dwarf

Audiobook
Fiction: Mystery / Thriller
Unabridged   8.25 hour(s)
Publication date: 05/06/2014

The Eighth Dwarf

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Digital Download ISBN:9781622310944

Summary

Searching for a killer of Nazi war criminals, an ex-spy finds an unlikely ally.

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Product Description

Nicolae Polscaru, a three-and-a-half-foot-tall dwarf, is tossed into a Hollywood swimming pool by four drunken screenwriters, who take bets on how long he can tread water. Minor Jackson, his OSS training still fresh a year after World War II’s end, beats the bullies senseless and pulls Nicolae from the water. A friendship is born.

Jackson is broke, his spying days over, and Nicolae offers him a job. A former spy himself, the globe-trotting Romanian has a commission to find Kurt Oppenheimer, an expert assassin of high-ranking Nazis. Kurt won’t stop killing, no matter what the bloodshed will do to the fragile world peace, and the Soviets, the British, and the remains of the Nazi High Command all want his head. Jackson will beat them all to finding Kurt—unless his new friend betrays him first.

Reviews/Praise

“Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense.”
      —Los Angeles Times

“What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites.”
      —The Village Voice

“Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once.”
      —Eric Ambler, author of The Mask of Dimitrios

Author Bio

ROSS THOMAS (1926-1995) was an American writer of crime fiction and is best known for his witty political thrillers. He won two Edgar Awards and was posthumously honored with the inaugural Gumshoe Lifetime Achievement Award.

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