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      The Grifters

      by Jim Thompson
      Published
      Jan 1963
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      Jim Thompson's classic The Grifters is one of the best novels ever written about the art of the con, an ingeniously crafted story of deception and betrayal that was the basis for the critically acclaimed film by Stephen Frears and Martin Scorcese. 

      To his friends, to his coworkers, and even to his mistress Moira, Roy Dillon is an honest hardworking salesman. He lives in a cheap hotel just within his pay bracket. He goes to work every day. He has hundreds of friends and associates who could attest to his good character.

      Yet, hidden behind three gaudy clown paintings in Roy's pallid hotel room, sits fifty-two thousand dollars — the money Roy makes from his short cons, his "grifting." For years, Roy has effortlessly maintained control over his house-of-cards life — until the simplest con goes wrong, and he finds himself critically injured and at the mercy of the most dangerous woman he ever met: his own mother.

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      Aug 1985 Creative Arts Book Company ISBN13 9780916870904 ISBN10 0916870901
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      Oct 1990 Vintage ISBN13 9780679732488 ISBN10 0679732489
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      Feb 1989 Book Of The Road ISBN13 9780931969201 ISBN10 0931969204
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