Cast a Yellow Shadow
A Mac McCorkle Mystery

This is the second novel to feature saloon keeper Mac McCorkle, following The Cold War Swap. McCorkle has now moved from Germany back to the U.S. and opened a new bar/restaurant in Washington, D.C. He's married now and hopes to live a peaceful, quiet life. He maintains a hotel room in Washington for......more

Readers of a certain age are likely to remember an advertising slogan for one of Wrigley's gums: "Two, two, two mints in one;" or "Double your pleasure, double your fun with Doublemint gum." Well, reading Cast A Yellow Shadow truly embodied that notion, so rife with double crosses that the reader's p......more

Here’s a thriller about political assassination, and it’s a hoot from start to finish. Mac McCorkle is not your average saloon-keeper. His partner Mike Padillo — his mother was Estonian, his father Spanish — speaks “six or seven languages” fluently and has used them in dangerous undercover assignment......more

Ross Thomas remains the greatest political/mystery writer you’ve never heard of. He’s been dead for decades. Some of his books are out of print because they’re unfashionable—his best uses the “N” word, and this one uses “negro” throughout. Don’t be put out by the language. Thomas’s better books captu......more

GOD THIS BOOK IS SO GOOD. I mean, everything Thomas write is great (or nearly great), but this one feels special, largely b/c of how Mac handles his emotions about the kidnapping of his wife. His frankness with Padillo as he slowly falls apart is lovely (as is Padillo's patented emotionless, but als......more