The Ballad of a Small Player (Paperback)

from librarian1204

I received this book as a LibraryThing Early Reader. Trying to review a book about something you have no experience or knowledge about is not easy. This novel is set in the gaming casino world of Macau and Hong Kong. The MC, Doyle, is in expat from England, on the run with the immense proceeds he...

from slavenrm

As usual I received this book for free in exchange for a review. This time from LibraryThing. Also as usual I provide my scrupulously honest feedback below. The story runs basically along the lines of the standard ne'er-do-well gambler who runs afoul of not only the law but also the laws of proba...

from melthefishy

I struggled to find closure at the end of this book. I know that that Lord Doyle is supposed to be loosing all this money in order to redeem himself for stealing it in the first place, but I really wished that it would have concluded better than it did. The book was written very well. It wasn't a...

from Paulmb

In his latest novel, "The Ballad of a Small Player", Lawrence Osborne paints a colorful and highly descriptive picture of the casinos and players of Macau. While the story builds to a moderate level of suspense, uncertainty, and mystery, it fails to develop a meaningful plot with so few character...

from KevinJoseph

This novel tells the story of a disgraced English lawyer, known as Lord Doyle in the Macau casino where he has taken up permanent residence, who seeks to purge his guilt by gambling away a considerable sum of money embezzled from a widowed client. When a run of improbably bad luck at the Baccarat...