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Grift sense : a Tony Valentine novel

"Meet Tony Valentine, former cop, lifelong misanthrope, and sixtysomething freelance grifter-hunter. He's also something of a legend and not just among the retirees of Palm Harbor, Florida. There isn't a pit boss from the boardwalk of Atlantic City to Las Vegas' main drag who hasn't called on Valentine to dump the grifters out with the trash."--Jacket.

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  • ""Meet Tony Valentine, former cop, lifelong misanthrope, and sixtysomething freelance grifter-hunter. He's also something of a legend and not just among the retirees of Palm Harbor, Florida. There isn't a pit boss from the boardwalk of Atlantic City to Las Vegas' main drag who hasn't called on Valentine to dump the grifters out with the trash."--Jacket."@en
  • "The first four pages of this casino-themed debut are smashing--literally. Then James Swain, himself a gambling expert and professional magician, gets to the real story, and at that point, the plot starts churning out more twists than a corkscrew factory on overtime. Soon the characters are so enmeshed in their own self-serving lies, scams, and schemes that the only thing for a reader to do is just take a deep breath and let the steady barrage of surprises wash over him. There's no point in saying "take a deep breath and enjoy the scenery," because in Swain's Las Vegas, what one gazes upon is most likely to be a casino's gambling floor as viewed from security monitors. "Watching surveillance videos," he explains, "is a unique experience. The cameras filtered twice as much light as the human eye, and as a result hairpieces looked like rugs, cheap suits took on zebra stripes, and women wearing red dresses became naked. It was like entering the Twilight Zone." All too familiar with this eerie, totally paranoid, 24/7 universe is one-time Atlantic City cop Tony Valentine, who now runs a one-man consulting business he calls Grift Sense. To say of someone that he has that particular form of larcenous intuition, the author tells us, is "the highest compliment" one hustler can pay another. Grift sense means "that you not only knew how to do the moves, you also knew when to do them." And even if Valentine is 62 and settled in Florida, away from the action, he's never lost his ability to "feel when a hustle's going down, even if (he doesn't) know exactly what it is." That's why the Acropolis Resort & Casino is determined to lure him West to check out what looks like funny business going on between blond blackjack dealer Nola Briggs and a player named Frank Fontaine, who happens to be winning a little too steadily. Swain's easy expertise with the world of gaming and gamblers makes Grift Sense into a fascinating guidebook, as well as a vivid debut in a series that so far has a flavor all its own."@en
  • "Misanthropic ex-cop and freelance "grifter hunter" Tony Valentine is called in to find swindler Frank Fontaine, who vanished leaving Nola Briggs, a blackjack dealer caught on camera helping him cheat, to take all the heat."@en
  • "Amidst the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Valentine, it's the first new scam he's seen in decades'and maybe the best. Three things Tony knows: The blonde is guilty, the grifter has lived a former life, and the biggest scam is the one that hasn't happened yet. In a dream world of fake Greek statues, statuesque hostesses, and a casino owner whose sex life might just burn down his own house, Tony Valentine is plying his special trade. While some people have a sixth sense, Tony has a grift sense'and he needs it now to separate a grifter from a scam that's worse than anyone's wildest dreams. ... From the Paperback edition."@en
  • "Les aventures de Tony Valentine, ancien policier spécialisé dans les arnaques de casinos. A Las Vegas, un certain Frank Fontaine est en train de dépouiller le casino de l'Acropolis, au point d'en menacer l'existence même. Le patron, Nick Nicocropolis, est tellement inquiet qu'il fait appel à Tony pour coincer ce flambeur un peu trop habile. Prix calibre 38."

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"
  • "Roman policier américain"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Suspense fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Grift sense : a Tony Valentine novel"@en
  • "Le sens de l'arnaque"
  • "Osjećaj za prijevaru"
  • "Grift sense : a mystery introducing Tony valentine"
  • "Grift sense : a mystery introducing Tony Valentine"@en
  • "Grift sense a Tony Valentine novel"@en
  • "Grift Sense"@en
  • "Va-bank!"
  • "Le sens de l'arnaque : roman"
  • "Ва-банк!"
  • "Grift sense"@en
  • "Grift sense"

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