The Eighth Dwarf

Written by Ross Thomas

Narrated by Johnny Heller

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

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: May 6, 2014
• ISBN: 9781622310944

Ross Thomas

ROSS THOMAS is the author of over twenty-five critically acclaimed novels. His debut, The Cold War Swap, was written in under six weeks and won an Edgar Award for Best First Novel, and Briarpatch won an Edgar Award for Best Novel. He's also written under the name Oliver Bleeck. Thomas died in 1995 at the age of 69 in Santa Monica, California.

Reviews for The Eighth Dwarf

[ehines_20 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Germany immediately after WWII. Think The Third Man or A German Requiem, but told from the American perspective. A bit less of the wise-ass Ross Thomas in this one, though he's clearly still here. But that difference in tone makes this novel stand out a bit in Thomas ouvre.

[bookmarque · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Like any other Thomas novel, you can’t trust surface appearances. This goes double for Thomas’s espionage stories. The action moves quickly, but you can’t skim, you have to read everything. To skim means to miss something vital that will leave you confused and frantically paging backwards to find the part that will pull it all together for you. And as usual, there is a weird and unexpected ending to savor. Not so much a twist as a good dose of irony. The most delicious part of reading this was the scenes where two people meet under certain circumstances and we all see what is presented, knowing that somehow it isn’t what it seems but not knowing how. Then in the next few paragraphs we see the real person and their motive and it is absolutely fascinating. Great stuff and I positively savored those passages.