{"product_id":"the-ballad-of-a-small-player-1","title":"The Ballad of a Small Player","description":"\u003cp\u003eSOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\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.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eHis name is Lord Doyle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His plan- to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e His game- \u003ci\u003ebaccarat punto blanco\u003c\/i\u003e -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Though 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 \u003cbr\u003e So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot- a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another \u003ci\u003enaughty lemonade\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of a Small Player\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Random House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780099599685\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Osborne, Lawrence","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47953762058417,"sku":"SB-0099599686-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-ballad-of-a-small-player-1","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}