God Save the Mark
A Crime, Humor, Fiction book. American Gods for the Grifter set!Fred Fitch is just a normal guy who is...
* mark n. An easy victim; a ready subject for the practices of a confidence man, thief, beggar, etc.; a sucker.-Dictionary of American Slang, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., 1960That's the long definition of a mark. But there's a shorter one. It goes:* mark n. Fred FitchWhat, you ask, is a Fred Fitch? Well, for one thing, Fred Fitch is the man with the most extensive collection of fake receipts, phony bills of sale, and counterfeit sweepstakes tickets in the Western Hemisphere, and possibly in the entire world. For another thing, Fred Fitch may be the only New York City resident in the twentieth century to buy a money machine. When Barnum said, "There's one born every minute, and two to take him," he didn't know about Fred Fitch; when Fred Fitch was born, there were two million to take him. Every itinerant grifter, hypester, bunk artist, short-conner, amuser, shearer, short-changer, green-goods worker, pennyweighter, ring dropper, and yentzer to hit New York City considers his trip incomplete until he's also hit Fred Fitch. He's sort of the con-man's version of Go: Pass Fred Fitch, collect two hundred dollars, and move on. What happens to...
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- Pages: 272 pages
- ISBN: 9780765309198 / 0
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I've plowed through the Dortmunder and Parker series, but luckily I still have more Westlake pages to turn. The high points in this book are the details along the journey: the "simple" task of cashing a check at a bank, the back exit scene (with sound effects), the little cons that provide insight into the main character, the patter... American Gods for the Grifter set!Fred Fitch is just a normal guy who is constantly swindled by nearly every grifter, con man, con woman and thief in New York City. The main character is Fred who gets sucked up in a series of situations after having received $300K following his Uncle's death.Not quite a comedy but very funny, not quite... Fred Fitch is a born mark, a man of incredible gullibility and a favorite target of con men. Being a smart man and relatively self-aware, he knows this (but never realizes he's being conned until it's too late). When he inherits a large sum of money from a relative he's never met, it seems like everyone wants to help relieve him of...
