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Given the humor and grit he liked to mix in his suspense novels, Ross Thomas would rejoice at Johnny Heller's versatile and often hilarious performance of this work. It is set in 1946 and features unemployed former OSS op Minor Jackson and Polscaru, a Romanian dwarf who hires him to find a young German-Jewish assassin who won't stop killing Nazis--war or no war. The accents are huge fun: Texan, British, German, Polish, Romanian, and Russian, just for a start. Meanwhile, Heller manages to make Polscaru, a compulsive liar, double-crosser, and indefatigable ladies' man, weirdly charming. Not to mention the wide-eyed innocence he gives to the assassin's virginal sister who claims she learned all those esoteric sex techniques from a book. Great acting. Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award. -- AudioFile Ross Thomas is that rare phenomenon, a writer of suspense whose novels can be read with pleasure more than once. -- Eric Ambler, New York Times bestselling author, praise for the author Ross Thomas is without peer in American suspense. -- Los Angeles Times, praise for the author What Elmore Leonard does for crime in the streets, Ross Thomas does for crime in the suites. -- Village Voice, praise for the author

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"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. Johnny Heller, winner of numerous Earphones and Audie Awards, was named a ""Golden Voice"" by AudioFile magazine in 2019. He has been a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award winner from 2008 through 2013 and he has been named a top voice of 2008 and 2009 and selected as one of the Top 50 Narrators of the Twentieth Century by AudioFile magazine."

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