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Cody, a young writer, learns that he also is a con man when he manipulates his younger brother's con game victims into settling for restitution. But in the end, it is Cody’s big brother who cons the judge and rescues his little brother from the Tennessee chain gang. “There’s hardly a paragraph in it that doesn’t have its own momentum and contribute to the surge of the story. Yet it’s full of atmosphere and has a genuine rainbow of characters, all of them ticked off with the hard precision that entertains and convinces.” —R. V. Cassill, author of Clem Anderson