two good thrillers(f) (older)- p/backs

In good condition, but foxed due to storage.

Stephen Cannell - King Con
Very funny novel.
The night when BEano "King Con' Bates skimmed $86,000 from Joe "Dancer" Rina at a closed door poker session in New Jersey should have been his last. The crime boss doesn't take kindly to being cheated. BEsides which his golf coach is recommending some serious work on his approach game.
The result being the greatest scam artist on the East Coast winds up in intensive care with the imprint of a nine iron in just about every part of his body. It could have been worse. A bettr player than Joe Rina would have killed him.
now King Con is back out of traction - and looking to put the Dancer down. His motives - his own injuries and the fat that his beloved cousin is brutally murdered before testifying against Rina. His method, The Mother of All Scams!! a complicated and diabolical top dollar con that will destroy Joe Rina and his family. But first he needs just a little help from the FBI

Tom Bradby - Shadow Dancer
Colette McVeigh- mother, widow, terrorist. She has lived the republican cause for all of her 29 years. Her brothers are involved at senior levels in the IRA, whose husband was killed by the British security forces, and a woman who is no an informer for MI5.
Arrested in an aborted bombing attempt in London, Colette is given two choices, talk and see her children again, or stay silent and spend the rest of her life watching them from a prison cell.
Unwilling she is led to betray her past by her young MI5 handler, David Ryan, who always knew where his loyalties lay. But when he folows Colette to BElfast, those values are sacrificed on the pyre of the province's history. As the peace process gathers pace and Ryan watches Colette put herself in increasing danger to keep her side of the bargain, he realises his professional integrity is irrevocably and fatally compromised..


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