Plain Dealer

Download or read book Plain Dealer written by William Ardin and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antique dealing has its own equivalent to 'insider trading', as Charles Ramsay finds out to his cost. Offered the purchase of a lifetime, he sees all his ambitions realized in an antique jade cup, known as 'The Loot'. But as soon as the deal is irrevocably struck he finds himself stuck with it like an albatross around his neck -- unable to export it without a licence, unable to sell it at home, and in a paralysing no man's land where nobody has sufficient capital to take it off his hands...