Joe Gores 
Cons, Scams and Grifts [EPUB ebook] 

On a Hollywood studio lot, a dancing bear — a Gypsy in a fur suit — does a little sly pickpocketing. In San Francisco, Daniel Kearny Associates are waging a campaign to repossess twenty-seven classic cars from people who are creatively determined to keep them. And in a fortress in the Big Sur wilderness, a rich man vows to steal a collectors’ item. Soon the bear, DKA and the millionaire entangle in a twisted plot of betrayal and murder. When the dancing bear is killed, the police start searching for his beautiful wife, Yana. But Yana is eluding everyone — DKA included — and working a grift of her own. Meanwhile a helicopter is headed for Big Sur, carrying the greatest scam of all.