Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink (USA 2013)

From the Publisher:
A tragic past traps a former Hollywood stuntman in a web of international intrigue -- from "America's best storyteller" (The New York Times Book Review).
Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies.

Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a fellow stuntman whose career died along with Sacchetti. He's selling used cars when two thugs approach him. They're emissaries from Sacchetti's godfather, a Mafia don. Sacchetti is alive after all-alive enough to be blackmailing the don-and they firmly request that Cauthorne find him. The search takes Cauthorne back to Singapore, to risk his own life for the sake of the man he thought he'd killed.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink. Mysterious Press / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453234778 (January, 2013), 224 p., $18.99.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink (USA 2011)

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A stuntman searches for a colleague whom he thought he killed long ago
Two pirates do battle on an old junk ship in Singapore Harbor. They leap nimbly from deck to rigging, crossing swords like fencing masters. And then one surprises the other, slicing a rope and sending the unfortunate pirate tumbling into the bay. This is how stuntman Angelo Sacchetti dies.

Edward Cauthorne was his opponent, a fellow stuntman whose career died along with Sacchetti. He's selling used cars when two thugs approach him. They're emissaries from Sacchetti's godfather, a Mafia don. Sacchetti is alive after all-alive enough to be blackmailing the don-and they firmly request that Cauthorne find him. The search takes Cauthorne back to Singapore, to risk his own life for the sake of the man he thought he'd killed.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink. Mysterious Press / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781453228159 (October, 2011), eBook, 3 MB (ca. 224 p.), $11.99.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink (USA 1987)

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Before the Mafia enforcers strode into his office, Edward Cauthorne had been enjoying the quiet life of a salesman of vintage autos in downtown Los Angeles. He had once been a Hollywood stuntman -- until he miscalculated on a complex shipboard gimmick and sent his colleague Angelo Sacchetti to a watery grave.

Now two torpedoes, working for Sacchetti's "godfather" in Washington, appear with photograpts of a still-living Sacchetti -- and a proposal. Cauthorne will be paid: $25,000 to search for the stuntman he thought he had killed in a Singapore harbor two years ago.

As for the "Singapore Wink" it involves blackmail, murder, a most unusual FBI agent, and the sexy daughter of a crime czar -- to name but a few of the ingredients of one of bestselling author Ross Thomas' wildest adventures.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink. Mysterious Press / Warner Books, ISBN: 0445405589 (July, 1987), 220 p., $3.95.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink (USA 1969)

From the Publisher:
Ross Thomas is unique. His novels of intrigue and adventure have inspired reviewers to compare him with Len Deighton, John Le Carré and Noel Behn -- but no one else could have written The Cold War Swap, The Seersucker Whipsaw, or Cast a Yellow Shadow. No writer of suspense fiction can match him for wit, action, or page-turning excitement - and The Singapore Wink is a prime example.

Starting in Los Angeles and moving to Washington and Singapore, this new Thomas thriller involves the reader in a fascinating story of intrigue as an ex-Hollywood stuntman searches for another man he thought he had killed two years before.

What is "the Singapore wink?" We won't tell you here, but it involves blackmail, murder, a most unusual FBI agent, and the sexy daughter of a crime czar -- to name but a few of the ingredients in Ross Thomas's wildest adventure yet.

Ross Thomas: The Singapore Wink. A Novel of Adventure and Intrigue. New York: William Morrow & Co., 1969, 253 p., $5.95.