James Swain

Funny Money (Tony Valentine Novels) James Swain Reprint edition

Tony Valentine has a gift for grift: He can walk into a casino and spot a cheater across a crowded floor. A man who still uses pay phones and won?t spend more than a buck for coffee, Tony has protected Atlantic City gambling palaces for twenty years and learned every trick of the trade?until a new one blows him away.

With his old partner murdered in a bomb blast, Tony returns to A. C. to retrace Doyle Flanagan?s last case. Investigating a six-million-dollar casino takedown, a square cop soon meets a whole lot of bent people, from a beautiful lady wrestler to some Manhattan mobsters; from a trio of beautiful casino ?consultants? to a team of Eurotrash blackjack card counters. But while everyone around Tony Valentine (including Tony?s own son) is playing some kind of angle, Tony is determined to find a killer who is playing for keeps. . . .