The Lies of Locke Lamora

“I’m getting rid of you, you know,”

a good confidence game took three months to plan, three weeks to rehearse, and three seconds to win or lose the victim’s trust forever. This time around, he planned to spend those three seconds getting strangled.

Deception and misdirection are our tools. We don’t believe in hard work when a false face and a good line of bullshit can do so much more.”