The Ballad of a Small Player
First UK edition | |
| Author | Lawrence Osborne |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Thriller |
| Publisher | Hogarth Press |
Publication date | 1 April 2014 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print, e-book, audiobook |
| Pages | 275 pp. |
| ISBN | 978-0804137980 |
The Ballad of a Small Player is a 2014 novel by British writer Lawrence Osborne. Set in the gambling casinos of Macau, it follows the fortunes of an English con man who passes himself off as a runaway person of nobility. Part ghost story, part psychological thriller, it earned Osborne comparisons with Graham Greene and Dostoevsky.