(1976) Non-Fiction Warriors for the Poor: The Story of VISTA, Volunteers In Service to America (with William H. Crook, 1969) Spies, Thumbsuckers, Etc. (1989) Recurring characters The following characters appear in more than one novel: Cyril "Mac" McCorkle, former Army special-operations officer in World War II Burma and now co-owner of Mac's Place, a bar/restaurant first in Bonn and then in Washington, DC, and his polyglot business partner/friend Michael Padillo, spy/executioner for an unnamed government agency; both are in The Cold War Swap, Cast a Yellow Shadow, The Backup Men, and Twilight at Mac's Place. Padillo appears briefly in The Seersucker Whipsaw, tending bar as "Mike." Fredl Arndt, McCorkle's wife. Herr Horst, the maitre d' of Mac's Place. Karl Triller, the head bartender of Mac's Place, although his last name is not mentioned until Twilight at Mac's Place. Stan Burmser is Padillo's handler in Cold War Swap, has roles in Cast a Yellow Shadow and The Backup Men, and makes a very brief appearance in Mac's Place. Artie Wu and Quincy Durant, con men/adventurers, and their associate Maurice "Otherguy" Overby are in Chinaman's Chance, Out on the Rim, and Voodoo, Ltd. Booth Stallings, expert on terrorism, and Georgia Blue, cashiered Secret Service agent, join them in the latter two. "Boy" Howdy, an Australian adventurer, is featured in Out on the Rim. He is mentioned in passing in Missionary Stew. Howard Mott, a Washington lawyer and son-in-law of Booth Stallings, has cameo roles or is mentioned in several novels including Twilight at Mac's Place, in which he plays a fairly important part. Ione Gamble, an actress and director, is a central character in Voodoo, Ltd. and is seen briefly in Ah, Treachery!. Draper Haere, political money raiser, is a central character in Missionary Stew and is mentioned in Ah, Treachery. Minor Jackson and Nicolae Ploscaru, central characters in The Eighth Dwarf, are mentioned in Ah, Treachery. Chubb Dunjee is the protagonist of The Mordida Man and is mentioned in Voodoo, Ltd. In the five Philip St. Ives novels (as by Oliver Bleeck): Myron Greene, a New York corporation attorney on Madison Avenue, has a peripheral role as St. Ives's friend, lawyer, and business agent in all five books. Eddie the bellhop and Sid the bartender are very minor characters fleetingly mentioned from time to time in the various books as being employees of the Manhattan hotel where St. Ives resides. Sergeant