the cold
war swap
The Seersucker Whipsaw
Cast a Yellow Shadow
The Singapore Wink
The Fools in Town Are on Our Side
The Backup Men
The Porkchoppers
If You Can’t Be Good
The Money Harvest
Yellow-Dog Contract
Chinaman’s Chance
The Eighth Dwarf
The Mordida Man
Missionary Stew
Briarpatch
Out on the Rim
The Fourth Durango
Twilight at Mac’s Place
Voodoo, Ltd.
Ah, Treachery!
the cold
war swap
Ross Thomas
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS
ST. MARTIN’S MINOTAUR NEW YORK
THOMAS DUNNE BOOKS.
An imprint of St. Martins Press.
THE COLD WAR SWAP. Copyright © 1966 by Ross E. Thomas, Inc. Introduction © 2003 by Stuart M. Kaminsky. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martins Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Thomas, Ross, 1926–1995.
The Cold War swap / Ross Thomas.—1st St. Martin’s Minotaur ed.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-312-31581-3
1. Bars (Drinking establishments)—Fiction. 2. Americans—Germany—Fiction. 3. Bonn (Germany)—Fiction. 4. Defectors—Fiction. 5. Cold War—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3570.H58C65 2003
813'. 54—dc21
2002191951
First published by William Morrow & Co., Inc., in 1966
D 1 0 9 8 7 6 5
introduction
Ross was forty years old when he wrote his first novel,
