Grifter's Game

Con man Joe Marlin was used to scoring easy cash off beautiful women. But that was before he met Mona Brassard and found himself facing the most dangerous con of his career, one that will leave him either a killer or a corpse.

Grifter's Game was originally published as Mona by Gold Medal in 1961. This is the book s first publication under the author s intended title.

The New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

The idiom is what you'd expect for the period (''she made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore''), but the narrative is layered with detail, the action is handled with Block's distinctive clarity of style and the ending is a stunning tour de force.