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Cons, Scams & Grifts by Joe Gores

jeremyhornik's review

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3.0

It turns out I read a prequel to this book, like, twenty years ago. Both involve a group of repo men and a group of gypsies, both are heavily episodic, both have minimal character development, and both are kind of fun. The scams range from kind of dumb to kind of glorious. The author seems like he'd be really fun spinning these stories (some drawn from his own life, no doubt) in a bar.

My main complaint, I guess, would be that there are too many of the stories, and they don't really differentiate much from each other. But I like con stories, and I liked this.
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