Take Down, James Swain
Take Down, James Swain
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Take Down

Author: James Swain

Narrator: Nick Podehl

Unabridged: 11 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 02/10/2015

Synopsis

Whoever says crime doesn’t pay isn’t doing it right.There are hundreds of casinos in Las Vegas, and Billy Cunningham knows how to rip off every one. His scams are a thing of beauty—so perfectly orchestrated that onlookers believe he and his crew are winning fair and square. In a town where bosses will kill to protect their profits, Billy can’t afford to make mistakes, but even the best-laid plans can go wrong…Desperate to keep his team out of jail, Billy agrees to help stop a legendary family of thieves from taking down a casino. But he has no intention of breaking the cheater’s code: never rat out your own kind. He’s running his own con on the casino’s psycho owner and his vicious, violent wife. Throw in a murderous drug dealer, a vengeful gaming agent, and the girl Billy’s never forgotten, and this scam artist is playing for sky-high stakes: a cool eight million, and the chance to live long enough to spend it.

About James Swain

James Swain is the nationally bestselling author of seventeen mystery novels. His books have been named Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews Best Mystery Books of the Year, and he has received three Barry Award nominations and a Florida Book Award for fiction. In 2006, he was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Calibre .38 for Best American Crime Writing. Born in Huntington, New York, he graduated from New York University and worked as a magazine editor and screenwriter before moving to Florida to run a successful advertising firm. When he isn’t writing, he enjoys researching casino scams and cons, a subject on which he’s considered an expert.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fred on October 25, 2015

I enjoyed the Tony Valentine series of the retired detective who assists casinos in determining how they are getting ripped off and by whom. This character, Billy Cunningham, relates the tales from the other side as one who rips off the casinos. I had a chance to meet James Swain at a signing and wa......more

Goodreads review by Skip on May 11, 2015

Following Swain's success with the Tony Valentine series, he has a new character, Billy Cunningham, who runs a crew set up to steal from casinos. Billy lives by a criminal credo to never sell out his fellow scammers, and to defend his crew but is himself dragged into a bad situation by his primary m......more

Goodreads review by Craig on December 14, 2015

From 2001 to 2010, magician and card-carrying card trick wizard James Swain wrote a series of delightful novels about an ex-cop named Tony Valentine who had been in charge of policing casinos in Atlantic City and now, retired to Florida, offered himself as a private consultant to catch cheaters. Swa......more

Goodreads review by A Reader's Heaven on June 04, 2017

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.) There are hundreds of casinos in Las Vegas, and Billy Cunningham knows how to rip off every one. His scams are a thing of beauty—so perfectly orchestrated that onlookers believe he and his crew are winning fair an......more

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