What are some good books about down-on-their-luck, hustling characters that have turned to petty crimes and self-destructive vices in an urban society, similar to Chase from Neuromancer?
The setting doesn't matter.
>>7634314
The Bible
Anything by Genet
>>7634314
Don Quixote
>>7634314
Burrough's Junky
Hubert Selby Jr's Requiem for a Dream and maybe his Last Exit to Brooklyn
>>7634314
The Grifters, and probably most of Jim Thompson's other books.
The entire genre of the Picaresque.