Good Scammer tells the story of Clive 'Bangaz' Thompson, an orphan born in West Jamaica raised with no love, education, or prospects of ever getting a decent job. He designs an ingenious business model that brings millions of dollars annually to the little villages around the sandy inlets of the Jamaican coast, making himself a vast personal fortune and a hero to his community. He achieves all of this without using a knife or a gun or even the threat of violence. Many people see scammers as simple criminals. But Bangaz's life, when seen from his perspective as a victim of the theft and duplicity of slavery and colonialism, tells a different, more complex human story. Through his eyes, our sympathy and smiles justifiably remain with him and his righteous band of reparation bredren. 'Willy Loxley-Gordon is a washed-up English novelist, drinking himself to death in Jamaice. Clive 'Bangaz' Thompson is the king of the island's scam artists - he's made a fortune conning Americans out of their savings and now he's decided he wants to tell his story. Willy reluctantly takes the job and unearths the sometimes brutal, often hilarious story of how Jamaice became a mecca for con artists. Wonderfully entertaining and surprisingly profound.' John Williams in Mail on Sunday Guy Kennaway is a writer of fiction and memoir. He is best known for his novels ONE PEOPLE, about village life in Jamaica, BIRD BRAIN, about a bunch of optimistic pheasants, and for his memoir TIME TO GO about killing his mother (with her permission.). His most recent novel, THE ACCIDENTAL COLLECTOR, won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction in 2021. His most recent memoir is FOOT NOTES, a broad comedy about race and nationality which he wrote with his relative Hussein Sharif.'In all my writing my aim is to delight and amuse, ' Kennaway has said. 'Hopefully I make people laugh out loud. Laughter is our most effective weapon in the battle against the difficulties and struggles of life. If I can transport my reader to a happy, joyful world, my mission is successful.'