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There where honest men and thieves, pimps and panderers and men of virtue. There were beautiful women and delicious girls, handsome men and men with faces of swine.They were all gamblers in a game with no rules, placing their bets debonairly or in the sweat of fear...
These are some of the characters in Irwin Shaw's novel. The place is Cannes, the setting, a film festival. The hero is Jesse Craig, forty-eight years old, whose survival is at stake in the midst of this gaudy carnival.
ISBN:0450044254
