- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Mysterious Press (1 Sep 1988)
- ISBN-10: 0099629402
- ISBN-13: 978-0099629405
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,565,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The award-winning author of the bestselling Briarpatch delivers a brilliant, highly acclaimed new thriller about an American con man embroiled in a multimillion-dollar plot to overthrow the Aquino government. "Mr. Thomas has never been more devious and duplicitous".--The New Yorker.
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The three who survived the ambush on the black-sand beach were the nineteen-year-old second lieutenant of infantry; the five-foot-four guerrilla; and the huge, somewhat crazed medical corpsman who had sweated, starved and raved away sixteen pounds in the week that followed. Read the first page
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The three who survived the ambush on the black-sand beach were the nineteen-year-old second lieutenant of infantry; the five-foot-four guerrilla; and the huge, somewhat crazed medical corpsman who had sweated, starved and raved away sixteen pounds in the week that followed. Read the first page
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Format:Paperback
Ross Thomas couldn't have written a bad book if he'd tried - this is another expert thriller, with spies, conmen, crooks and Philippine guerillas in a mad chase after $5m. We meet terrorism expert Booth Stallings, just becoming a crook himself, Artie Wu and Quincy Durant - one of the great pairings of the genre, Otherguy Overby and Georgia Blue. Various other crooked and deadly characters appear along the way to add to the fun.
Elegant writing, perfectly paced, recommended if you like spies, thrillers, crime novels or just plain good writing.
Elegant writing, perfectly paced, recommended if you like spies, thrillers, crime novels or just plain good writing.
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OUT ON THE RIM features two senior citizens. One is in the process of recovering from a stroke while carrying on a revolution and the other is reentering the world of work after being between jobs less than twelve hours.
Thomas comes up with an entertaining plot full of double and triple crosses set in the early years of the Aquino government while the Marcos forces still loom as a large threat. The story centers around an attempt by the Marcos gang to destabilize the Aquino government by funding a rebel group led by Alejandro Espiritu. Enter Booth Stallings, Espiritu's World War II buddy and presently a down-and-out sixty-year-old academic just fired from his job with a foundation as an expert on terrorism. He is hired indirectly by the Marcos regime as an intermediary.
On his way to the Philippines Stallings joins forces with a collection of experienced international con men. Artie Wu is a forty-year-old giant who is a pretender to the emperor's throne in China. He is accompanied by his longtime business partner, Quincy Durant. In a cast full of desperadoes and other untrustworthy people, Otherguy Overby manages to stand out. His nickname speaks for itself. It's always the other guy's fault. Georgia Blue is a statuesque beauty who doubles as both a body guard and a strong-willed, brilliant and independent operative. As a team, their most remarkable quality may be their ability to survive.
As the plot unfolds we begin to appreciate the latent talents of Stallings. He also starts to believe in his own abilities and realizes at the end he has found a new career for his dotage in company with Overby, Wu, Durant and Georgia Blue.
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The Ability To Survive
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Format:Hardcover
OUT ON THE RIM features two senior citizens. One is in the process of recovering from a stroke while carrying on a revolution and the other is re-entering the world of work after being between jobs less than twelve hours.
Thomas comes up with an entertaining plot full of double and triple crosses set in the early years of the Aquino government while the Marcos forces still loom as a large threat. The story centers around an attempt by the Marcos gang to destabilize the Aquino government by funding a rebel group led by Alejandro Espiritu. Enter Booth Stallings, Espiritu's World war II buddy and presently a down-and-out sixty-year-old academic just fired from his job with a foundation as an expert on terrorism. He is hired indirectly by the Marcos regime as an intermediary.
On his way to the Philippines, Stallings joins forces with a collection of experienced international con men. Artie Wu is a forty-four year old giant who is a pretender to the emperor's throne in China. He is accompanied by his long-time business partner, Quincy Durant. In a cast full of desperadoes and other untrustworthy people, Otherguy Overby manages to stand out. His nickname speaks for itself. It's always the other guy's fault. Georgia Blue is a statuesque beauty who doubles as both a body guard and a strong-willed, brilliant and independent operative. As a team, their most remarkable quality may be their ability to survive.
As the plot unfolds we begin to appreciate the latent talents of Stallings. He also starts to believe in his own abilities and realizes at the end he has found a new career for his dotage in company with Overby, Wu, Durant and Georgia Blue.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Ross Thomas characters at their very best
8 Oct 1999
Format:Paperback
A spellbinding book that I could not drop until it was finished. The characters (Artie Wu, Durant, Otherguy Overby, ... ) are so alive - I expect them to step right out of the pages. The plot is marvelous and the story is written beautifully.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Good Feel for "The Rim"
11 Dec 2005
Format:Paperback
I just re-read this book after first reading it when it came out. It has always had a special spot with me and it didn't let me down the second time around. I worked in Manila 1981-84 and remembered the book as capturing the feel of the place. Indeed it does capure the post-Marcos era and the poor, terminally corrupt Philippines. The main characters are great. Who wouldn't want to run a caper with this crew. Wish Thomas was still with us and we could look forward to more from "Other Guy" the pretender and the rest.
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