Ardies, Tom
Entry updated 23 February 2026. Tagged: Author.
(1931-2020) US journalist and author, mostly of crime fiction, who also wrote nonfantastic tales as by Richard O'Brien and Jack Trolley. His borderline Near Future Sparrow sequence – Their Man in the White House (1971), This Suitcase Is Going to Explode (1972) and Pandemic (1973), the Pandemic in question being an almost universally fatal manufactured flu – sees America at risk of Russian skulduggery, though Charlie Sparrow stands in the way, and the constant threat of an Invasion of Canada does not become entirely real. [JC]
Tom Ardies
born Seattle, Washington: 5 August 1931
died San Diego, California: 16 June 2020
works
- Their Man in the White House (New York: Doubleday, 1971) [hb/]
- This Suitcase Is Going to Explode (New York: Doubleday, 1972) [hb/]
- Pandemic (New York: Doubleday, 1973) [hb/]
- Kosygin Is Coming (New York: Doubleday, 1974) [hb/]
- Russian Roulette (London: Panther, 1975) [vt of above: pb/]
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