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7146171The Ballad of a Small Playerhttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-ballad-of-a-small-player-9781529961256/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6692036/image.jpg?v=638689850467700000360360MXNRandom HouseInStock/Audiolibros/<p>Brought to you by Penguin.</p><p>SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON</p><p><em><strong>I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.</strong></em></p><p>His name is Lord Doyle.</p><p>His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.</p><p>His game: <em>baccarat punto blanco</em> -- that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.</p><p>Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money and himself up in smoke.</p><p>So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another <em>naughty lemonade</em> and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyles way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.</p><p><em>The Ballad of a Small Player</em> is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortunes fickle hand.</p><p> Lawrence Osborne 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2025</p>...6809324The Ballad of a Small Player360360https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-ballad-of-a-small-player-9781529961256/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/6692036/image.jpg?v=638689850467700000InStockMXN99999DIAudiolibro20259781529961256_W3siaWQiOiIxMjZhN2Y2Ni0wN2Q3LTQ4YTUtYWY3NC0zODI1ZTEzOWQzMTciLCJsaXN0UHJpY2UiOjM2NCwiZGlzY291bnQiOjAsInNlbGxpbmdQcmljZSI6MzY0LCJpbmNsdWRlc1RheCI6dHJ1ZSwicHJpY2VUeXBlIjoiV2hvbGVzYWxlIiwiY3VycmVuY3kiOiJNWE4iLCJmcm9tIjoiMjAyNC0xMi0wNVQwNTowMDowMFoiLCJyZWdpb24iOiJNWCIsImlzUHJlb3JkZXIiOnRydWUsImlzRWxpZ2libGVGb3JDcmVkaXRUcmlhbCI6dHJ1ZSwiY3JlZGl0UHVyY2hhc2VQcmljZSI6MX1d9781529961256_<p>Brought to you by Penguin.</p><p>SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON</p><p><em><strong>I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.</strong></em></p><p>His name is Lord Doyle.</p><p>His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau.</p><p>His game: <em>baccarat punto blanco</em> -- that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.</p><p>Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money and himself up in smoke.</p><p>So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another <em>naughty lemonade</em> and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyles way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater.</p><p><em>The Ballad of a Small Player</em> is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortunes fickle hand.</p><p> Lawrence Osborne 2014 (P) Penguin Audio 2025</p>...9781529961256_Random Houseaudiolibro_9781529961256_9781529961256Lawrence OsborneInglésMéxico2025-03-06T00:00:00+00:00NoMINUTE2025-03-06T00:00:00+00:00Random House