Herman Jackson has chosen St. Paul as his place of permanent exile from Detroit, where his former life as a bookie got too hot to hold. Now he leads a respectable, low-profile life as a bail bondsman, selling second chances to losers...
Swindlers and swindling
- Author:Thompson, RichardSummary:
- Author:Crusie, JenniferSummary:
Holding the eccentric Goodnight family together is daughter Matilda, who's inherited the secret locked in the basement, a secret tht she's willing to do almost anything to keep. Davy Dempsey, a reformed con man, will do...
- Author:Slade, Arthur G.Summary:
Robert's brother vanishes and he has to find him. This award-winning book offers a new sophistication to young adult fiction, and a terrifying take on the psychology of fear.
- Author:Ellin, AbbySummary:
Abby Ellin's romance with The Commander was a whirlwind from the go. But his stories of international espionage soon unraveled to reveal he wasn't who he'd claimed. Then she learned how many others had been deceived. In...
- Author:Hough, RobertSummary:
Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award: Fiction Bonus e-book content includes two out-takes from the novel -- how Antonio Garcia got his beautiful horse and how Miguel Orozco...
- Author:Robertson, MelvinSummary:
The law of retribution is one force you can't get around, no matter what. You don't even realize when retribution takes its toll, you're only aware of misfortune. Remember the saying what goes around, comes around?...
- Author:Gogol, NikolaiSummary:
The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes...
- Author:Knowles, MikeSummary:
Wilson spent his entire life under the radar. Few people knew who he was and even less knew how to find him. Only two people even knew what he really did. He worked jobs for one very bad man. Illegal jobs no one could ever know about....
- Author:Rigetti, SusanSummary:
A Most Anticipated by Entertainment Weekly, Marie Claire, and Parade! "[A] juicy tale of stolen identities and ever-increasing fraud ... The book ended with a wallop that made me literally gasp?and admire debut author Susan Rigetti...
- Author:Bower, TomSummary:
The riveting tale of how the wanabee aristo Conrad Black and his social-mountaineering wife Barbara gulled their way into the City, the Tory party, Wall Street and High Society.
- Author:Telfer, ToriSummary:
The art of the con has a long and venerable tradition, and its female practitioners are some of the best, or worst in history. But what about today? Spoiler alert: these "artists" are still conning.
- Author:Thompson, VictoriaSummary:
When a day at the races reveals sabotage and subterfuge, Elizabeth Miles must use every ounce of her craftiness to even the score in this all-new Counterfeit Lady novel from USA Today bestselling author Victoria Thompson. Wealthy but...
- Author:Sands, KevinSummary:
An NPR Best Book of the Year! Eleven meets The False Prince in this thrilling heist story for young readers, in which five kids with unusual talents are brought together to commit an impossible crime. Failure is unacceptable, but...
- Author:Sands, KevinSummary:
In this conclusion to the thrilling Thieves of Shadow series, bestselling author Kevin Sands delivers a jaw-dropping heist that sees five young thieves masterminding a prison break from the empire's most impenetrable island fortress....
- Author:Redding, Stan, Abagnale, Frank W.Summary:
The uproarious, bestselling true story of the world's most sought-after con man, immortalized by Leonardo DiCaprio in DreamWorks' feature film of the same name. Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and...
- Author:Saxon, RobinSummary:
For the last ten years, James Mitchell has conned numerous groups by impersonating a religious guide. No longer able to take the guilt of scamming people, he decides to call it quits. A trip might be the best way to heal his bruised...
- Author:Wright, TomSummary:
Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (...
- Author:Lemaître, PierreSummary:
"Pour le commerce, la guerre présente beaucoup d'avantages, même après." Au lendemain du plus grand carnage du xxe siècle, deux rescapés des tranchées, passablement abîmés, prennent leur revanche en réalisant une...
- Author:Yeebo, YepokaSummary:
New Yorker Best Book of the Year "A fascinating story brilliantly told."- The Boston Globe * "A non-fiction masterpiece." - Philadelphia Inquirer The astounding, never-before-told story of how an audacious Ghanaian...
- Author:Mamet, DavidSummary:
David Mamet's gift for storytelling and forging poetry from both the plain-spoken and profane turns an ill-conceived scheme to steal a rare coin into a triumph of dramatic art. In a junk shop, three men of different generations plan...