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The shell game (also known as thimblerig, three shells and a pea, the old army game) is often portrayed as a gambling game, but in reality, when a wager for money is made, it is almost always a confidence trick used to perpetrate fraud. [1]
It’s never where you think it is though because the card handler is a master at sleight of hand. This is the three shell game, which works in a similar way. Learn the secret move that makes it...
Jan 22, 2008 · Steve Alten proves his versatility in his latest thriller THE SHELL GAME, a tour-de-force thriller tackling oil, politics, and the state of the world. Controversial, shocking, meticulously researched, and sure to raise many eyebrows in Washington, Alten has produced both a dazzling political thriller and to a cautionary tale for our times.
FIND OUT HOW FBI SPECIAL AGENT KATE O'HARE AND CON ARTIST NICOLAS FOX FIRST MET IN THIS EXCLUSIVE EBOOK ORIGINAL SHORT STORY! Conman Nick Fox is after Garson Klepper’s golden Peruvian relics. For Fox, convincing Klepper to hire him as security for the relocation of the relics to The Getty in L.A. was easy.
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Oct 7, 2014 · The Shell Game is a breezy, entertaining, fast-paced introduction to the adversarial relationship at the center of this series, between a suave, elegant, likeable trickster and the by-the-book FBI agent determined to take him down.
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Jan 5, 2023 · The shell game. by. Alten, Steve. Publication date. 2007. Topics. War on Terrorism, 2001-2009 -- Fiction, Terrorism -- Prevention -- Fiction, Intelligence officers -- Fiction, Conspiracy -- Fiction, International relations -- Fiction, Nuclear warfare -- Fiction. Publisher.
The shell game, a swindling trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under one to another of three walnut shells or cups to fool the spectator guessing its location, is a version of one of the oldest and most widespread forms of sleight of hand.
Oct 7, 2014 · The Shell Game is a pleasing and fun, entertaining, fast-paced introduction to the adversarial relationship at the center of this series, between a suave, elegant, likable trickster and a by-the-book FBI agent determined to take him down.
It was love at first con. Find out how FBI Special Agent Kate O’Hare and con artist Nicolas Fox first met in this exclusive eBook original short story! Con man Nick Fox is after Garson Klepper’s golden Peruvian relics.
The events of September 11th, 2001…the invasion of Iraq…the threat of radical Islam… an impending showdown with Iran. What do these situations have in common? the world is running out.
