Chinaman's Chance""It was while jogging along the beach just east of the Paradise Cove pier that Artie Wu tripped over a dead pelican, fell, and met the man with six greyhounds."""- "from "Chinaman's Chance" Thus begins what may be the most popular of Ross Thomas's unique stories. The combination of Wu, pretender to the Imperial throne of China, and Quincy Durant, who has his own colorful past, makes for a heady experience. After starting with the deceased pelican on a California beach, the plot mixes in the disappearance of a large sum of money that should have been buried in Vietnam, and the search for the missing member of a trio of singing sisters from the Ozarks. Only Thomas could have stirred this concoction with the style, humor, and suspense that captures the reader at the very beginning and doesn't let go until the last word. |
Contents
Section 1 | 9 |
Section 2 | 22 |
Section 3 | 31 |
Section 4 | 46 |
Section 5 | 65 |
Section 6 | 74 |
Section 7 | 85 |
Section 8 | 95 |
Section 20 | 224 |
Section 21 | 231 |
Section 22 | 239 |
Section 23 | 249 |
Section 24 | 261 |
Section 25 | 271 |
Section 26 | 281 |
Section 27 | 288 |
Section 9 | 107 |
Section 10 | 121 |
Section 11 | 133 |
Section 12 | 143 |
Section 13 | 151 |
Section 14 | 161 |
Section 15 | 172 |
Section 16 | 185 |
Section 17 | 196 |
Section 18 | 205 |
Section 19 | 214 |
Section 28 | 311 |
Section 29 | 321 |
Section 30 | 328 |
Section 31 | 338 |
Section 32 | 348 |
Section 33 | 356 |
Section 34 | 363 |
Section 35 | 371 |
Section 36 | 379 |
Section 37 | 380 |
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Common terms and phrases
Artie Wu Bangkok beach beer Betty Mae Breadstone Brenda called chair coffee Congressman Conroy cops couple course Crites decided desk door drink Durant nodded Durant's Eames chair Ebsworth Eddie McBride Egidio eyes face fucking glass going gonna gotta grinned guys hand hell Icky Norris Imperlino Ivory James kind knew Lace Armitage Lake leaned living room looked at Wu Madame Szabo mean morning moved Okay opened Otherguy Overby Overby's Papeete Paradise Cove Pelican Bay picked Piers nodded Piers's Ploughman pocket pretty probably Quincy Randall Piers Reginald Simms Saigon Santa Monica shirt shit shook his head shrugged sighed Silk Armitage slowly smiled smoke ring Solly Gesini sort stared started sure talk tell Tex-Mex thing thought thumb told took trying turned voice wanta watched What's Wu and Durant Wu nodded Wu's Yeah