![]() ![]() There he runs into trouble and sends McCorckle a coded message asking for help. One afternoon, Padillo disappears on what we later learn is a very difficult assignment that will take him into communist East Germany. He keeps trying to get out, but his handlers keep pulling him back in, making him offers that he can't refuse. Padillo is often away from the bar on mysterious business of one sort or another and we learn early on that he is a reluctant employee of an American intelligence agency. ![]() ![]() A mysterious man named Michael Padillo effectively blackmails McCorckle into taking him on as a partner, but they turn out to be a good team and become close friends. It is also an excellent spy novel that somehow wound up winning the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel, even though it has nothing in common with Agatha Christie or any other traditional mystery novelists.Īs the book opens, Mac McCorckle is attempting to open a bar in Bonn, Germany at the height of the Cold War. Published in 1966, this is the first novel by Ross Thomas. ![]()
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