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A rational leader would know that shooting the lawyer and right-hand of Minnesota’s billionaire debt queen would not go unanswered, but he was embarrassed and angry and wanted to put this smug slickster in his place.

Dodson’s resentment of, yet yearning for, connection with IQ and fulfilling his destiny as a slickster Watson to IQ’s more cerebral Sherlock is one of the novel’s many ancillary pleasures.

Still, Ms. Wainwright was not your obvious online-luxury slickster.

Then came Ricko Canaz Ball, whose fondness for robbing car mechanics earned him the sobriquet “Oil Slickster”.

The interviews mark a second phase in the boisterous slickster’s return to the public eye.