Gypsy Hearts
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A darkly comic thriller tells the story of Richard Milhous Miller, a twenty-five-year-old American scam artist posing as a Hollywood screenwriter in Prague, who meets his match in the amoral half-gypsy Monika.
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A laugh-out-loud funny book about an American scam artist looking for marks on the streets of Prague.
Posing as a successful Hollywood screenwriter, Nix swindles female tourists, but ends up stealing from the wrong woman as it attracts the attention of the woman’s fiancé, a local detective, whose soon sets his sight on Nix. When Nix spots a sultry young woman at the train station, he thinks he’s found his next victim, but she leads him on, then cleans him out.
Thinking the two could be an unbeatable pair together, Nix tracks Monika down, but accidentally kills her pimp. The…
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