"Bust-out man: one skilled at switching crooked dice in and out of a
game. Bust-out king: someone who is simply better at it than anyone
else."
While growing up, Joe Farroni almost never saw his Uncle Rocco, and when
Joe asked his parents about the man, they'd kept their lips zipped. Only
when Joe is an adult - a writer struggling with a mortgage and two
kids - does he discover his uncle's identity as the sneakiest,
slipperiest, most successful conman to ever grace the streets of New
York City. Now Rocco has passed away, and left it to Joe, his only heir,
to write the story of his master schemes.
The Bust-Out King is a rollicking caper about a wise guy of the gritty
1970s, a determined individual with a financial scheme well ahead of his
time.