The Thought Gang is the second novel by English author Tibor Fischer, published in 1994.

According to the Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide (2003), it was 'one of the funniest and most imaginative novels of the last twenty years'.

[1] Described by the complete review as 'a metaphysical thriller, combining bank robbery and high philosophy',[2] it tells the unlikely tale of Eddie Coffin, an unemployed, overweight, alcoholic philosophy professor who flees Britain for France where he meets Hubert, a one-armed, one-legged thief.

Although described by John Updike in The New Yorker as 'a textbook example of an author outsmarting himself', other reviews were more positive.

[2] Booklist describes it as 'a rollicking good time' and goes on to say of the author: 'He puns his way through a text that manages to be as witty and erudite as the late novels of Nabokov and every bit as extreme and satirical as Pulp Fiction.