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Rennie Airth is a former journalist whose first novel, Snatch!, features Harry Brighton, a crook who lives in Rome and sells forged passports. Brighton joins con man Jonathan Morland in a scheme that involves switching babies and collecting a fortune for the return of the child of a wealthy financier. Alberto, who was rented to be the substitute, is cared for by Paula, and in the epilogue Brighton says he wrote the book to earn money to care for Paula, Alberto, and himself after the plot failed. New York Times Book Review contributor Allen J. Hubin observed that the humor “derives from situation rather than wit.” Snatch! was deemed “thriller of the year” by a Times Literary Supplement reviewer.
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