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King Con

Conman extraordinaire Beano Bates and his beautiful, unlikely partner, District Attorney Victoria Hart, join forces to engineer a multi-million-dollar scam designed to bring down a powerful mob boss and his clan.

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  • "Conman extraordinaire Beano Bates and his beautiful, unlikely partner, District Attorney Victoria Hart, join forces to engineer a multi-million-dollar scam designed to bring down a powerful mob boss and his clan."@en
  • "Prosecutor "Tricky Vicky" Hart - and she won't help unless he takes her along. An inexperienced partner is the last thing a con artist needs, but Beano has no choice. The unlikely pair trek from Atlantic City to the Bahamas to the California coast, implementing the Master Plan leading to the Big Sting, setting the traps and laying the bait, ensnaring the Rina crew by using their own greed - and money. Along the way they enlist the aid of the extended Bates family - all."@en
  • "When it comes to creating unforgettable criminal characters, nobody does it better than Emmy Award winner Stephen J. Cannell, the force behind such acclaimed TV hits as "The Rockford Files," "The Commish," "Wiseguy," and "The A-Team." Now come Cannell's most engaging characters yet'a spirited assortment of clever con artists.King Con vs. The Don Raised in a world of flimflams, come-ons and con-jobs, Beano Bates has done so well he's earned a spot on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. But his lucky streak vanishes after a card game in which he scams a cool eighty grand from a notorious Mafia don'who retaliates by having Beano nearly beaten to death. For the first time in his legendary career, Beano wants more than a big score'he wants justice. Aided by a beautiful, no-nonsense female prosecutor and a legion of crafty cousins, all accomplished grifters, Beano, the king of the cons, puts together the ultimate swindle'a well-planned sting of strategy, skill and deception. The target is America's most feared mob kingpin and his psychopathic brother. And in this game, winner takes all!"@en
  • "At high-stakes poker. Rina beats Beano nearly to death, and the grifter is so shaken that he seriously considers quitting the hustle. But when his beloved cousin Carol is brutally murdered just before testifying against Rina, Beano masterminds one final Mother of All Scams: a Byzantine and diabolical "big-store" con that will destroy Joe Rina and his Mob family. There's just one problem: Beano needs Rina's FBI file. The only person who can get it to him is Federal."@en
  • "Beano Bates, "King Con," seriously considers quitting the hustle after being beaten nearly to death by Joe "Dancer" Rina, a New Jersey mobster, but when Beano's beloved cousin is killed by Rina, he decides on one last master scam to destroy Rina and his Mob family."
  • "Of them expert con artists in their own right."@en
  • "There have always been and there always will be charming, slyly clever con men. But a Master of the Game as charismatic, ingenious, elusive, and irresistible as Beano X. Bates comes along only once in a generation. His exploits are so legendary as to have earned him the highest accolade in the realm of confidence art: the title King Con. But the King's reign is threatened when he crosses Joe "Dancer" Rina, a New Jersey crime boss who doesn't take kindly to being cheated."@en
  • "Ask librarian for help in locating."
  • "Plus un plan de film qu'un vrai roman, vu la caractérisation superficielle et l'intrigue assez prévisible."
  • "When confidence man Beano is caught cheating at cards, Mafia boss Joe beats him so badly that he nearly dies. In revenge Beano teams up with a woman prosecutor--she is out to get Joe--and together they play a con game that will set other gangsters against Joe and put him away. By the author of Final Victim."
  • "Een meesteroplichter en een vrouwelijke officier van justitie smeden een complot om twee moorddadige gangsters te gronde te richten."

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  • "Romány"
  • "Adventure fiction"@en
  • "Adventure fiction"
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Adventure stories"
  • "Large type books"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Fiction"@en
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  • "Korolʹ moshennikov : roman"
  • "Falešný hráč"
  • "King con"
  • "King Con"@en
  • "King Con"
  • "King Con [sound recording]"
  • "Kuningaspuhaltaja"@fi
  • "Svindlernes konge"@da
  • "Le roi de l'arnaque : roman"
  • "King Con (audiodisc)"@en
  • "L'ultima mossa"@it
  • "L'ultima mossa"
  • "King con a novel"@en
  • "King Con a novel"@en
  • "King Con : a novel"@en
  • "King Con : a novel"

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