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The Eighth Dwarf

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf (USA 2011)

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

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf. Mysterious Press / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453228197 (October, 2011), 3 MB (ca. 282 p.), $9.99.

 

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The Eighth Dwarf

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf (USA 1996)

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Ex-OSS operative Minor Jackson was broke when he pulled the sputtering dwarf out of the Beverly Hills swimming pool in the summer of '46. but Nicholas Ploscaru -- dwarf, Romanian nobleman, genius, spy, love-object for fascinated women -- has an almost-legal scheme to make them both rich. Relatives of Kurt Oppenheimer, who vanished in Germany during the war, will pay them handsomely to locate him.

Unknown to Jackson, Oppenheimer is a slightly crazed, but highly efficient assassin who has continued to murder ex-Nazi leaders after the war. He's being sought by the Americans, the Russians, the British, and, quite possibly, the Israelis -- all of whom have their reasons for wanting the killer alive.

As Oppenheimer skillfully steals acrss a divided Germany in pursuit of his victims, Jackson and the dwarf play one country against another in a dangerous game of intrigue and entrapment, leading to a totally unexpected conclusion.

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0445407549 (March, 1996), 319 p., $5.99.

 

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The Eighth Dwarf

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf (USA 1980)

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A WILD MANHUNT LED BY AN AMERICAN SPY, A ROMANIAN DWARF, AND AN ALMOST BEAUTIFUL WOMAN.
A crazed assassin was knocking off Nazis in the rubble of postwar Germany. Nobody loves Nazis, but the Americans, the British, and the Russians were all looking for him - with no success. That's where the dwarf came in.

All three-and-a-half feet of Nicolae Ploscaru was drowning in a Beverly Hills swimming pool when Minor Jackson fished him out. He offered Jackson partnership in a lucrative venture.

All they had to do was cross a few borders, get seduced by a few women, and beat a master assassin to the kill.

"ROSS THOMAS IS CONSISTENTLY ENTERTAINING... HE CAN HANDLE GROTESQUES, MOOD AND ACTION AS WELL AS ANYBODY WRITING TODAY." John D. MacDonald

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380490722 (June, 1980), 280 p., $2.25.

 

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The Eighth Dwarf

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf (USA 1979)

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THIS NEW NOVEL by Ross Thomas in every way fulfills Brian Garfield's observation that "Ross Thomas combines the compassion of Ross Macdonald and the keen descriptive insights of John D. MacDonald with the toughness of James M. Cain and the easy, breezy style of Rex Stout. Added to all this is a wit all his own."

Set in California, Mexico, Washington, D.C., and Germany in 1946, The Eighth Dwarf centers around a struggie among three intelligence agencies, each seeking the same man. Minor Jackson, an ex-OSS operative, is thrown into this conflict with only his wits, a dwarf and an almost-beautiful woman to help him.

Jackson is broke when he pulls the dwarf, Ploscaru, out of a Beverly Hills swimming pool. Ploscaru -- Romanian aristocrat, genius-spy, love-object for fascinated women -- has an almost-legal scheme to make them both rich. Kurt Oppenheimer's relatives, says the dwarf, will pay them handsomely to find Kurt, who disappeared in Germany during the war.

Unknown to Jackson, Oppenheimer is a slightly crazed but highly efficient assassin, who has continued to murder ex-Nazi leaders after the war, and who is being sought by the British, the Russians, the Americans and, quite possibly, the Israelis, all of whom have their reasons for wanting the killer - and alive. As Oppenheimer, a master of disguises and dialects, skillfully steals across a divided Germany finding his victims, the dwarf plays one country against another in a dangerous game of intrigue, pursuit and entrapment with a totally unexpected conclusion.

"Any Ross Thomas novel," says The New York Times Book Review, "is fast-paced, smoothly written, and brightly observant." In The Eighth Dwarf, Ross Thomas weaves a suspense-filled, insightful thriller, written with wry humor and the flair that has made him one of our most widely read and most highly acclaimed novelists.

Ross Thomas: The Eighth Dwarf. A Novel. Simon and Schuster, ISBN: 0671246534 (March, 1979), 319 p., $9.95.

 

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