The Big Bounce by Elmore Leonard

A fast-moving crime novel about a restless drifter who takes a job at a lakeside resort and is soon seduced into a web of petty cons, double-crosses and escalating violence; as loyalties shift and schemes unravel, the protagonist must navigate greed, lust and moral compromise in a lean, darkly comic tale of small-time criminality gone wrong.

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