"Hain\'t we got all the Fools in Town on our side? And ain\'t that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark Twain Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of his post World War II story as well as for the title.
So start reading, and prepare to join Ross Thomas\'s legions of admiring fans..
This should never have happened to the man of whom The New Yorker has said "Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power." Minotaur is proud to remedy this situation by reissuing Thomas\'s novels.
Thomas died in 1995, and since then all but one of his twenty-five novels have gone out of print.
Two Edgar Awards, and other prizes, only complement the abundant praise that Thomas has received.
About the Author: Ross Thomas is ranked as one of the very top thriller writers by his fellow authors, and his readers loudly agree.
And the sly Dye takes the offer.
For two and a half times the government\'s bounty, Dye is to thoroughly corrupt the town.
His creed is "To get better, it must be much worse." He and his two associates have looked up Dye\'s history, and he now offers the ex-spy\'s a mission.
The canny Orcott knows there\'s no profit in that .
He has his sights a small southern city, with the ordinary run-of-the-mill corruption one would expect in such a place.
Victor Orcutt, although a not very good imitation of a British pre-war gent, has creative talents of his own.
But a good agent is always in demand, and just a few hours later Dye is being interviewed for a highly ingenious position.
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. "Hain\'t we got all the Fools in Town on our side? And ain\'t that a big enough majority in any town?" -- Mark Twain Ross Thomas chose the quotation from Huckleberry Finn as the text of his post World War II story as well as for the title
