The Gambling Man

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The Gambling Man

Author : Catherine Cookson

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Highlights

Language

Gambling Man

Edition

316

Pages

9780552104500

ISBN-13

0552104500

ISBN-10

Corgi

Publisher

198 mm

Height

129 mm

Width

20 mm

Thickness

Binding

Description

Rory Connor was a gambling man and he had a gambler's luck. From the day he was born, his mother had known that Rory would be the one to make something of his life. At seven years old he was earning money from odd jobs and by fourteen he was in full-time work. By the time he was nineteen, he had escaped the factory to become a rent-collector.

Now, at twenty-three, ambition was in full flow and he was always looking to bigger and better games to play. He feared nothing and nobody, not even the unscrupulous landlord he collected for. For an ordinary working lad, he was doing well - until one day, his luck changed and suddenly, things did not go as smoothly as he was used to...