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The Grifters (Crime Masterworks)
 
 
The Grifters (Crime Masterworks) (Paperback)
by Jim Thompson (Author) "As Roy Dillon stumbled out of the shop his face was a sickish green, and each breath he drew was an incredible agony ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 192 pages
  • Publisher: Orion; New Ed edition (16 Oct 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 075285206X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752852065
  • Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 596,215 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.

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Roy Dillon is young, good-looking and devastatingly charming. He's also a completely amoral con man. Lily, his mother, works for the mob. Moira Langtry, Roy's mistress, is always looking for the main chance, and so is Carol Roberg, the nurse brought in to look after Roy when a bad choice of mark means he has an unfortunate encounter with a baseball bat and a bad case of internal bleeding. Together they make up a perverse quadrangle of love and greed in a coruscating novel of corruption.

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