Matchstick man

Author: (USA) Eric Garcia / Wang Shengshan
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Publish Date: 2005-02-01
Features: "A very interesting book. This is Eric Garcia—the master of rambling (his novels) are a mad imagination under the twisted, concise writing style. 'Matchstick Man' is an interesting book, but at the same time, the novel is complex." Roy and Frankie are a pair of master con artists and partners in crime. From card gambling, altering winning lottery tickets, selling counterfeit paintings, defrauding insurance, to selling drugs, they have committed countless evils. Just as they were secretly rejoicing over their repeated successes, a teenage girl pretending to be Roy's daughter, Angela, enters their circle. Roy firmly believes her and is extremely accommodating to her, even awakening his sense of humanity at one point. Just as he and Frankie are about to commit their "last" crime, they are caught by undercover police. Although they temporarily escape the police's pursuit after a struggle, the shrewd Roy never expected that his partner Frankie and the little con artist Angela would team up to cheat him while he was severely injured, stealing away all the wealth he had accumulated over twenty years.