Cons, Scams & Grifts — Joe Gores

Ephrem Poteet is a dancing bear at Universal Studio's tourist trap--and a pickpocket on the side--until somebody puts a knife through his fur suit right up his gut. Even as the police search for Ephrem's beautiful Gypsy wife, the men and women of the DKA detective agency are already on the case. Chasing down the new owners of twenty-seven stolen classic cars in the Bay Area has DKA on a collision course with a Gypsy kingpin who needs help getting his tribe ready for a business trip to Rome. For DKA, a job is a job, but this one has them running in circles. Because in a time and place where all the players are in on a con, the biggest scam is the one you never see coming...