Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! (USA 2007)

From the Publisher:
Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation called VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery) trying to defend former intelligence operatives such as Partain from those who are trying to cover up the past permanently.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! Introduction by Joe Gores. St. Martin's eBook, ISBN: 9781429981644 (April, 2007), 533 KB (ca. 292 p.), $7.99.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
Ah, Treachery!, the last novel Thomas wrote before his death, tells the story of one Captain Edd "Twodees" Partain, drummed out of the Army and hounded by rumors of his involvement in a secret operation in El Salvador. Twodees gets hired on to help a fundraiser for the "Little Rock folks" recover funds that were stolen from an illicit stash used to smooth over problems and pay off hush money. Meanwhile, Partain is involved in a storefront operation called VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery) trying to defend former intelligence operatives such as Partain from those who are trying to cover up the past -- permanently.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! Introduction by Joe Gores. Thomas Dunne Books, ISBN: 0312327048 (March, 2004), 288 p., $17.99.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! (UK 1998)

From the Publisher:
Having been "allowed" to resign his commission after punching out his senior officer in El Salvador, Edd Partain launches himself into civilian life with crushing indifference. His new job hardly pays the rent and won't even stretch to a renewed membership of VOMIT (Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery). It's a job he can't afford to lose, but lose it he does when his employer is paid a visit by the slimy Colonel Millwed, who tactfully informs the store-owner that he is employing a psycho. Sadly for Edd, she's ignorant of Millwed's hidden agenda: the small matter of the theft of $1.2 million of CIA funds. Intended for the Salvadorean army, the cash went walkabout in 1989 and now Edd's one liability the thieves can do without.

Razor sharp and dead (pan) funny, AH, TREACHERY! once again proves that no one writes thrillers like Ross Thomas.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! Time Warner Paperbacks, ISBN: 0751515957 (January, 1998), 274 p., £5.99.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! (USA 1995)

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Milliscent Altford is a rainmaker, showering politics with cash. Edd "Twodees" Partain is a clerk at Wanda Lou's gun shop in Sheridan, Wyoming, until a certain man in a lambswool topcoat pretends not to notice him. Now Edd is heading to L. A. He's going to help Millicent get back the $1.2 million someone stole from her war chest, and that means returning to his former life in a world of spies, counter spies, revolutionaries, thieves, soldiers, and murderers. From Central America to Beverly Hills, from the CIA network of ex-intelligence operatives called VOMIT, the lady's vanished $1.2 million is making some beautiful women and brutal men live up to their reputations and beyond -- and taking tracheary to a new level of twisted insanity...

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! Warner Books, ISBN: 0446400319 (November, 1995), 264 p., $5.99.

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! (USA 1994)

From the Publisher:
Cashiered U.S. Army major Edd "Twodees" Partain is working as a clerk in Wanda Lou's Weaponry in Sheridan, Wyoming. That is, he works there until the tall man in the lamb's wool topcoat walks into the shop and announces that a certain secret operation that took place in El Salvador is about to hit the media fan.

For Partain, the visit from the man in gray leads to an unforeseen career move. Flying to L.A., the ex-major is grilled by a woman hiding out -- in a $2000-a-day hospital room -- from the "Little Rock folks." Millicent Altford is a rainmaker, and a good one. adept at shaking the money tree for deserving politicos. Her secret war chest is missing $1.2 million, and she wants Partain to ride shotgun while she gets it back. And that leads Partain across the continent to Washington, where the blunders of U.S. covert action in Central America are at last percolating up through the political ranks.

A storefront organization called VOMIT -- Victims of Military Intelligence Treachery -- is trying to defend a network of former intelligence operatives, soldiers, and covert warriors, including Partain himself, from a plot to keep the truth buried. VOMIT has its hands full. Because Twodees Partain is making even more enemies than he used to, a number of bags containing $1.2 million are floating around, and some old El Salvador hands are stirring up the ashes of political sin -- with corpses sprawling from Georgetown to Beverly Hills...

Ross Thomas: Ah, Treachery! Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0892964529 (November, 1994), 274 p., $21.95.