Tom Bethany Books In Order
- Body Scissors (1990)
- Strangle Hold (1991)
- Bear Hug (1992)
- Head Lock (1993)
- Half Nelson (1994)
- Kill Story (1995)
Novels
- The Bombing Officer (1985)
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Body Scissors
‘Fast, tricky, raunchy to the core funniest thing since Spencer’Carl Hiaasen.’Lands Doolittle in the front rank of political thriller novelists’Ross Thomas.’Four star, Class A thriller:’Cleveland Plain Dealer.’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high voltage storyteller:’Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
Strangle Hold
‘Tom Bethany is some guy Mr. Doolittle is a slick stylist. His characters have heft they talk like the people they’re supposed to be.’ New York times.’One of those books you’ll stay up all night to finish’ Cleveland Plain Dealer.’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high voltage storyteller:’ Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times.
Bear Hug
‘Tom Bethany is some guy Mr. Doolittle is a slick stylist. His characters have heft they talk like the people they’re supposed to be.’New York times.’Riveting. As full of tension as Christmas Eve shopping at Toys’R’Us’Maureen Corrigan, Washington Post.’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high voltage storyteller:’Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times.
Head Lock
Bethany takes on antiabortion terrorists and a twisted televangelist. ‘A Travis McGee for the 90s’Publisher’s Weekly’A great hero in an excellent series’Booklist’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high voltage storyteller:’Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
Half Nelson
Tom Bethany tracks the murders of an Oregon environmental leader. ‘A Travis McGee for the 90s’Publisher’s Weekly’A great hero in an excellent series’Booklist’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas as a high voltage storyteller, and that is exalted company’Charles Champlin, Los Angeles Times
Kill Story
Tom Bethany vs. a millionaire newspaper publisher in Cambridge.’Outrageous story outrageously well told by one of the best writers of deadpan humor in the mystery business.’ Portland Oregonian.’A Travis McGee for the 90s’ Publishers Weekly’Ranks with Robert Parker, Elmore Leonard, Ed McBain and Ross Thomas’ Charles Champlin, Los Angeles times
The Bombing Officer
A young American diplomat turns against the war when he is assigned to approve bombing targets in Laos.
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