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IT LOOKED LIKE TAKING CANDY
FROM A BABY. UNTIL IT DIDN’T...
For a con artist like Dani Silver, the mark’s low-hanging fruit—a recently signed basketball prodigy suddenly worth millions—and too young and naïve to know who to trust. Only one problem--so many people are already trying to scam him there’s literally no way to get to him.
Except, that is, to make a deal with the devil— aka Greville Norquist, a fixer with a reputation as the prince of darkness. The deal: Greville will arrange an intro and in return, Dani must provide him with four seemingly worthless items scammed or stolen from people Greville specifies—one of them being a snuffbox.
It’s a perfect set-up for author Lindsay to work his comic magic, deftly twisting one plot around the other like a couple of puppies in a box. But there are two obstacles— first, the snuffbox owner turns out to be nearly as hard to find as the mark.
And second, the mark turns out to be a sweet kid with an even sweeter fiancée— Leticia’s so lovely Dani’s ally, Foster Stevens the gay apy, more or less falls for her. In fact, pretty soon the whole gang balks at scamming these two. And Dani herself has taken a vow never to cheat a good guy.
So how are they supposed to turn a profit on this one?
As it turns out, it’s the least of their worries—Greville’s declared war on them.
Perfect for fans of capers, heists, and scam stories, who will find Dani more likeable than Anna Delvey, smarter than The Tinder Swindler, more inventive than Elizabeth Holmes—and far more fun than any of them
Genre: Mystery
FROM A BABY. UNTIL IT DIDN’T...
For a con artist like Dani Silver, the mark’s low-hanging fruit—a recently signed basketball prodigy suddenly worth millions—and too young and naïve to know who to trust. Only one problem--so many people are already trying to scam him there’s literally no way to get to him.
Except, that is, to make a deal with the devil— aka Greville Norquist, a fixer with a reputation as the prince of darkness. The deal: Greville will arrange an intro and in return, Dani must provide him with four seemingly worthless items scammed or stolen from people Greville specifies—one of them being a snuffbox.
It’s a perfect set-up for author Lindsay to work his comic magic, deftly twisting one plot around the other like a couple of puppies in a box. But there are two obstacles— first, the snuffbox owner turns out to be nearly as hard to find as the mark.
And second, the mark turns out to be a sweet kid with an even sweeter fiancée— Leticia’s so lovely Dani’s ally, Foster Stevens the gay apy, more or less falls for her. In fact, pretty soon the whole gang balks at scamming these two. And Dani herself has taken a vow never to cheat a good guy.
So how are they supposed to turn a profit on this one?
As it turns out, it’s the least of their worries—Greville’s declared war on them.
Perfect for fans of capers, heists, and scam stories, who will find Dani more likeable than Anna Delvey, smarter than The Tinder Swindler, more inventive than Elizabeth Holmes—and far more fun than any of them
Genre: Mystery
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