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** spoiler alert ** When you are halfway reading it, you get really upset about the last cover blurb, that seems to give away the plot - only it does not.

The fact is that it is quite obvious, from the beginning, that Corrigan is a swindler. So they are not giving anything away (it does crush the small hope one can hope that he is not, but one should not hold small hopes too long, anyway).

The thing is: does Ms. Blunt (who is anything, but blunt), his mark, know that he is a con man? Is she playing along or has she swallowed the bait? That is the main question you should ask yourself before the book ends - so, the blurb, actually, does not spoil the fun.

The other peculiarity of the book is its writer's life; you should really look it up in the internet: not only she was one of Guiness's girls (an heir to the famous brewers), but she was breifly married to Lucien Freud, to say only two of a hundred things she did and went through.

Her feverish life explains why this book is about the plot, not the style.