Briarpatch - Softcover

Praise for Ross Thomas

"America's best storyteller." --The New York Times Book Review

"Very few...are as consistently entertaining...even fewer can match him for style and power." --The New Yorker

"It's good to see the world again through Ross Thomas' cool, clear gaze." --Los Angeles Times

"Quintessential Thomas...that is about as high a compliment as a piece of popular fiction could be given...you can't put the damn thing down." --The Washington Post Book World

"Among the many pleasures of reading it, one of the most satisfying is simply to watch Thomas juggling -- and never once dropping -- two complicated plots." --The Washington Post

"Plenty of sound-like-real-world dialogue, an edgy sense of menace, and a pip of a plot that wastes very few lines." --NY Daily News

"One thing sure about Ross Thomas' novels: A reader won't get bored waiting for the action to begin." --Newsday

"Thomas's snappy dialogue moves the action along at a fast clip." --USA Today

"Mystery spine-tinglers don't come much better than this one...Thomas spins his plot elements the way a Chinese juggler spins plates." --Publishers Weekly

"A nonstop festival of double-crossing, triple-crossing, quick dialogue, cynical panache, and cheerfully violent action...Unusually clever and flavorsome." --Kirkus Reviews

"A cynically funny, violent caper...Plenty of joyous connivance." --Time Magazine

"Ross Thomas is quite simply, a great writer. And Out on the Rim is a great book." --Robert B. Parker

"Watch out! Ross Thomas writes with a switchblade knife. Out on the Rim dazzles!" --Ed. McBain