Super Con

Name: Super Con
Brand: Brilliance Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: James Swain
ISBN: 9781543622508

Author: James Swain

Series: Billy Cunningham #3

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 8 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Publisher: Brilliance Audio

Published: 12/05/2017

Categories: Fiction, Crime, Suspense & Thriller

Synopsis

An adrenaline rush of cons, grift, and murder in a town where deadly double-dealing is the name of the game.Master grifter Billy Cunningham has built a lucrative career conning a long list of Las Vegas casinos. In fact, he’s never walked into one he couldn’t rip off. Now he’s scheming a “super con” with a gang of high-profile cheats—a one-time-only scam that could rake in a cool multi-million-dollar payday.All goes as planned until Chinese crime lord Broken Tooth strong-arms Billy into rigging the Super Bowl, too. Billy has no choice but to play ball. Broken Tooth has a special edge on him: blackmail.When someone on his own team betrays Billy, all bets are off. Both the super con and Super Bowl gambits are in jeopardy. And just who’s scamming who? With kickoff time looming, it’ll take a Hail Mary pass for Billy to grift the game and survive long enough to pull off the wildest double-cross-with-a-twist in Vegas history.

About James Swain

James Swain is the national bestselling author of Take Down, Bad Action, and the Tony Valentine Series. His books have been translated into a dozen languages and have been selected as Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. Swain has received a Florida Book Award for fiction, and in 2006 he was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Calibre .38 for Best American Crime Writing. When he isn’t writing novels and screenplays, he enjoys researching gambling scams and cons, a subject on which he’s considered an expert.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul on October 29, 2017

This ARC was received from NetGalley in exchange for an unbiased review. Gratitude sent to Thomas & Mercer for allowing this pre-release edition made available. James Swain penned an action-filled narrative that held my undivided attention. The scenes were perfectly played out with each short chapter......more

Goodreads review by Fred on January 17, 2018

Swain is one of my favorites. I've met him at several books signings and have seen his incredible skills at close-up magic and card manipulation. I started with his Tony Valentine series, the retired detective working for casinos to show them how they are being scammed and enjoyed that series during......more

Goodreads review by Peter on November 14, 2017

Super Con is another insider Vegas gambling adventure written by James Swain. Swain is the author of a couple of series featuring gambling locations and cons and this entry is the third in the Billy Cunninham books. I would not recommend beginning with this one for a couple of reasons. One is that t......more

Goodreads review by LuAnn on December 27, 2017

I still think Billy Cunnigham is the craftiest and smartest cheat in Vegas. Also manages to solve the problems he faces. I look forward to the next in the series - I hope there's a next in the series!......more

Goodreads review by Alex on January 08, 2018

I've enjoyed all of James Swain's stories and Super Con was another fun and suspenseful read throughout. Swain has a unique story line with the Billy Cunningham series -- it's not every day you get to ride the coattails of high-end gambling cheats dreaming up ways to swindle Las Vegas casinos on a g......more