{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-a-small-player","title":"The Ballad of a Small Player","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Osborne, Lawrence\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e VINTAGE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 23-04-2015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e ‘I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis name is Lord Doyle.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.'\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThough Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money – and himself – up in smoke.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSo begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle’s way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune’s fickle hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEAN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099599685\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePackage Dimensions:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.6 inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguages:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VINTAGE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50108265857328,"sku":"Trans_9780099599685","price":600.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/9968\/4144\/files\/81xu1_Jc15L.jpg?v=1756809846","url":"https:\/\/www.retailmaharaj.com\/bn\/products\/the-ballad-of-a-small-player","provider":"Retail Maharaj","version":"1.0","type":"link"}