Conman [Paperback]

Richard Asplin (Author)

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Product Details

Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: No Exit Press (Aug 1 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 184243294X
ISBN-13: 978-1842432945
Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 386 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #49,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Conman is the story of young Neil Martin, a kindly family man. A bit geeky, a bit nerdy. If you met him, you would assume he runs a failing comic memorabilia store in London’s Soho. Which he does. In order to bail himself out of a huge stock-ruining, poster sopping basement flood, he needs to make a claim on his insurance. Which he would do - if he’d remembered to pay his premium. Terrified of losing everything – his wife Jane, his daughter, his business, his home – and scared to appear the dumb, working-class pleb that Jane’s father always took him for, Neil reluctantly agrees to help Christopher - a passing confidence trickster - use his premises for a big sting. So the con is on and the trap is set. Neil meets Christopher’s crew and, as he introduces them to the world of the vintage comic collectable, he is introduced to the life of the grifter. The swaps, swindles and switcheroos. The colourful patter of marks, mitt fitters, cacklebladders, and cold pokes. But things are never as they seem in the twilight world of the confidence man. And when Christopher’s real target is revealed, Neil finds himself plotting, switching, swapping, and scamming for revenge, for redemption. And for his life.