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The Conman
The Conman is a 1998 Hong Kong action comedy film directed by Wong Jing and starring Andy Lau, Athena Chu and Nick Cheung. Despite the Chinese title, which translates as "Knight of Gamblers 1999", Andy Lau does not reprise his role as the "Knight of Gamblers" from the "God of Gamblers" series, which was also directed by Wong Jing. The film was followed by a sequel "The Conmen in Vegas", which Lau and Cheung return with new cast members Natalis Chan,
novel is a first-person narrative told by the journalist Piet Maas. He refers to his troubled past when, following the collapse of a magazine he'd set up and his discovery of his girlfriend's infidelity, he tried to kill himself. As the novel progresses, though, he reveals himself as a tough, imaginative and resourceful planner of complicated arrangements. Early in the novel Lucia's former conman partner, Philip Sanger, had speculated that Piet, dispensing with his past anger at his business failure and at his unfaithful