Ross Thomas

The Fools in Town are on Our Side is a 1970 crime/espionage/social satire novel by American author Ross Thomas. The title is a paraphrased partial quote of a line from Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: "Hain’t we got all the fools in town on our side? And ain’t that a big enough majority in any …

Missionary Stew follows political fundraiser Draper Haere on a quest to uncover the secret behind a right-wing coup in an unnamed Central american country. Haere seeks the information in order to get dirt on his boss's opponent in the 1984 US Presidential election. Haere's pursuit of the truth repeatedly puts Haere's …