The Highbinders
- Автор: Томас Росс
- Серия: Philip St. Ives #4
- Год: 1974
- Язык: английский
- Год: William Morrow
- ISBN: 978-0-688-00210-7
- Жанр: Криминальные детективы
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Professional go-between Philip St. Ives finds himself in a London jail even before he has accepted an offer from Ned and Norbert Nitry to recover the fabulous Sword of St. Louis which as (or has it?) been stolen from them and is being ransomed. When Philip does accept the offer, he becomes involved in a deadly game of deception and murder with a bizarre group of characters that includes two professional con men (highbinders). Readers of previous Oliver Bleeck books will found the action, suspense, wit and great dialogue they’ve come to expect from an acknowledged master of the suspense novel.
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“I was going to spend it,” I said.
“How?”
“I had this fantasy coming back on the plane. I always have fantasies on planes. There’s this guy out in Vegas who calls himself Amarillo Slim and is supposed to be the world’s champion poker player. Well, in this fantasy I was going to take the money and fly out to Vegas and challenge him for the title.”
“That’s a good fantasy,” Myron Greene said.
“There was only one thing wrong. I couldn’t think of what to call myself. I needed something snappy and halfway sinister like Amarillo Slim.”
“How about Philosophical Phil?” Myron Greene said.
I told him I would have to think about it.
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