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Title: Cons, Scams, And Grifts: A Dka File Novel by Joe Gores ISBN: 0-446-67869-4 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: July, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.17 (6 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A very fun ride
Comment: Joe Gores does a tremendous job in "Cons, Scams & Grifts" of keeping the novel under control, a highly commendable achievement considering that the book has dozens of characters who play significant roles in the plot, as well as probably over a dozen separate storylines, most of which are interrelated in some way. The key storylines in the novel that all the others are spun off from are the repossession of 27 classic cars from a dealership who does everything it can to hide them, a Gypsy woman's apparent murder of her husband in Los Angeles, and the battle between an Italian zoo curator and a California millionaire for a rare orangutan
I understand that this novel is a sequel of sorts to "32 Cadillac's", which I've never read, using many of the same characters. To Gores' credit, he gives you enough backhistory so that those of us who haven't read "32 Cadillac's" are able to read "Cons, Scams & Grifts" without feeling lost. I would say about 90-95% of the time Gores was successful in keeping all of the various characters and storylines clear, and there really was only a handful of times when the various intersecting plots and characters got a bit fuzzy.
One of the strongest aspects of "Cons, Scams & Grifts" is the fact that Gores really was a private detective and repo man. Unlike many detective novels that pretty much require that you leave you brain and any sense of logic or reality at the door in order to enjoy them, the believability quotient seemed to me to be much higher in this novel than in similar books. I also enjoyed the obviously well researched insight into modern gypsy culture, which I really didn't know anything about previously. Half the fun of the book for me was reading a scene that I figured was being played straight, and then realizing later I had been conned myself (particularly the scenes with the overeager jewelery salesman whose free-spending customer and rare gem supplier are not exactly who they seem to be). Also, having grown up in the San Francisco Bay Area it was fun to see many familiar locations appear in the novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: Play to me, Gypsy
Comment: A roller coaster of a novel, dealing with a passel of repo men and women and a whole tribe of gypsies. A hilarious story of magnificent scams and cons. An in depth study on the repossession of cars for a bank that holds the defaulted loans. Of course, the two intertwine and the results are beautiful.
Unfortunately, the author chose to write in very short chapters with constantly changing scenery. Add to that the ever changing names, and the result can become rather confusing.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Gypsy Story
Comment: This book was a little difficult to read because of all the different stories going on at once, but if you can get past that and I did, it is a fun read. This is the latest in Joe Gores Series with the DKA Repossessors. I had not read the previous books by Mr. Gores but will probably go back and start from the beginning. I was not lost in this book because I didn't read the rest of the series though. Each of the agents from the Agency have a story as well as the main murder plot. It is definitely a good guy, bad guy book. It also portrays the Gypsy way of life pretty well. The characters definitely come to life for you.
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Title: Stakeout on Page Street and Other DKA Files by Joe Gores ISBN: 1885941447 Publisher: Crippen & Landru, Publishers Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: 32 Cadillacs by Joe Gores ISBN: 0892962984 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1992 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Cases by Joe Gores ISBN: 0446677930 Publisher: Mysterious Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Contract Null & Void by Joe Gores ISBN: 0446404470 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: The Final Country by James Crumley ISBN: 044667964X Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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