Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping

Ross Thomas: Protocol for a Kidnapping (USA 2012)

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When his old boss is kidnapped, St. Ives reluctantly agrees to free him
Philip St. Ives loses his first job in journalism as soon as he realizes he hates the man who gave it to him. Chicago Posteditor Amfred Killingsworth is a pompous blowhard, and fires his newest reporter for failing to fawn over him. St. Ives goes to New York, where he lands a daily column and the close friendship of an assortment of crooks. Killingsworth goes in a less respectable direction, becoming the US ambassador to Yugoslavia. By the time the ambassador gets himself kidnapped, the only man who can save him is his former cub reporter.

The kidnappers demand the release of a Slavic poet in exchange for the ambassador, and St. Ives goes behind the Iron Curtain to arrange the hand-off. To protect a trove of ugly Washington secrets, he'll have to save the life of a universally disliked man.

Ross Thomas: Protocol for a Kidnapping. A Philip St. Ives Mystery. Mysterious Press / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453259696 (July, 2012), 2 MB (ca. 224 p.), $9.99 (?).

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping (USA 1993)

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It began with a not-so-polite request from the State Department: help ransom a kidnapped U.S. ambassador from Yugoslavian radicals. St. Ives, professional go-between, had no choice but to go along -- and that was his first mistake. Because the kidnappers were employees of none other than the United States government.

Between his own teammates -- the independently wealthy Wisdom, the insufferably handsome Knight, and an insatiably sexy CIA agent named Arrie Tonzi -- and his singularly ruthless enemies, St. Ives doesn't have a prayer. But that doesn't mean he won't try. In the mountains of Yugoslavia, amid ancient hatreds and bitter rivalries, St. Ives is trying to sneak an ill-fated caravan of amateurs, lovers, and liars out of the country -- before the wrong people start to die.

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0446401765 (June, 1993), 216 p., $4.99.

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping (USA 1987)

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The American ambassador in Belgrade is kidnapped, and professional troubleshooter Philip St. Ives is immediately, entangled in a web of ruthless Eastern European power politics. St. Ives is drawn into a swirl of intrigue as he contends with a Broadway actor, a thirty-year-old millionaire, an imprisoned poet's breathtakingly beautiful daughter, and a sexy CIA agent.

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping. Harper & Row, ISBN: 0060808640 (June, 1987), Perennial Library P864, 228 p., $3.50.

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping (USA 1983)

Ross Thomas writing as Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping. New York: Harper & Row, 1983, ISBN: 006080646X, Perennial Library P646, 189 p., $2.95.

Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping (USA 1971)

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Philip St. Ives, the top professional go-between introduced last year in The Brass Go-Between, is back in action. In this new novel of intrigue, St. Ives is coerced by the Department of State into recovering the U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. The diplomat has been kidnapped and is being held for a ransom of $1,000,000 and the release of a Nobel Prize-winning poet.

It's a complicated assignment that becomes downright deadly as St. Ives finds himself involved with a Broadway actor, a 30-year-old millionaire, the poet's breathtakingly beautiful daughter, and a sexy CIA agent.

Oliver Bleeck: Protocol for a Kidnapping. A Novel. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1971, 254 p., $5.95.