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YASideStreets series.
Elias Minto knows trouble. His father split when he was a kid, and his mother's a drunk. What's more, his best friend, Jordan, is planning a "takedown" involving stealing profits from video gambling machines. Elias dreams of respectability but inevitably gets sucked into Jordan's scheme. The story employs every one-last-crime cliché in the book, but its fast pace may attract reluctant readers.