# The Ballad of a Small Player

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- Authors: [Lawrence Osborne](https://www.bookquiver.com/lawrence-osborne)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Genres: Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction

## Description

SOON TO BE A MAJOR NETFLIX FILM, STARRING COLIN FARELL AND TILDA SWINTON ‘I waited patiently for the next hand to be played out, and I had a feeling it was going to be a Natural, a perfect nine.’ His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: baccarat punto blanco -- 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.' Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. And now he is on the run, determined to send the money – and himself – up in smoke. So begins a beguiling, elliptical velvet rope of a plot: a sharp suit, yellow kid gloves, another naughty lemonade and an endless loop of small wins and losses. When Lady Luck arrives in the form of Dao-Ming, a beautiful yet enigmatic lost soul, so begins a spectacular and unnatural winning streak in which millions come Doyle’s way. But in these shadowy dens of risk and compulsion, in a land governed by superstition, Doyle knows that when the bets are high, the stakes are even greater. The Ballad of a Small Player is a sleek, dark-hearted masterpiece: a ghost story set in the land of the living, and a decadent morality tale of a Faustian pact made, not with the devil, but with fortune’s fickle hand.

## Editions

### The Ballad of a Small Player

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: audio
- Length: 7 h 5 min
- Narrated by: Rupert Penry-Jones
- ISBN: 978-15-2996-125-6
- Published: 2025-03-06
- Language: en_GB

### The Ballad of a Small Player

- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9959-968-5
- Pages: 224
- Published: 2015-04-23
- Language: en_GB

### The Ballad of a Small Player

- Publisher: hogarth
- ISBN: 978-08-0413-799-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 2015-01-13
- Language: en_US

### The Ballad of a Small Player

- Publisher: Vintage Digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-4818-971-7
- Published: 2014-04-03
- Language: en_GB