[Lovejoy 14] • Lovejoy 14 The Great California Game

It had to happen. After becoming a persona non grata in England and Hong Kong, Jonathan Gash's roguish antiques expert has escaped to America. Like any other illegal immigrant, Lovejoy is trying to lie low. But in no time at all his unerring instinct for recognizing forgeries draws the attention of some people who can make him very rich—if they don't make him very dead first. With only a destitute hooker and a streetwise eight-year-old for allies, Lovejoy embarks on the Great California Game, a highly illicit enterprise that involves gambling, antiques, and a cast of villains whose methods range from evangelical conmanship to unblinking murder.