The Long Con of Eddie Marsh

A veteran grifter's perfect mark turns out to be tangled in a federal case that could take his whole crew down.

• Crime caper following a veteran grifter's riskiest mark yet
• A perfect score tangled in a federal investigation
• A year-long game testing everything he's taught his protege

“Eddie Marsh had been running cons for eighteen years, long enough to know that the best mark in the world was a man who thought he was too smart to be one, and Victor Calloway, sitting three stools down at the hotel bar in his tailored suit and his watch worth more than most people's cars, was exactly that kind of man. Eddie had been watching him for two nights now, cataloguing his habits the way a jeweler catalogues a stone before deciding how to cut it: Calloway drank scotch, tipped generously to be noticed rather than out of genuine warmth, and mentioned his hedge fund's recent successes to anyone who'd stand still long enough to hear about them.”

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