Good morning, Karen.
I was waiting for your last sentence! LOL Swain's Valentine
series is great reading, though.
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> Just finished the fourth by James Swain, called
Loaded Dice. Hero Tony
> Valentine is an expert in gambling and cheating.
He's a good guy, an
> ex-cop who in his retirement acts as a consultant to
casinos that
> think they are being ripped off. He figures out
scams amazingly
> quickly a lot of the time.
>
> It's a good idea to read these in order (though I've
missed one). The
> characters' relationships through the books.
Valentine's ne'er-do-well
> son, Gerry, gets into worse trouble all the time. I
don't think it
> could get much worse than in this book, which
involves a "Middle
> Eastern" terrorist. Tony proves himself a real hero
as he makes a
> heart-wrenching decision.
>
> A good read. Not noir.
>
> Karin
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