This true story recounts how a group of MIT students used their intellectual skills to beat the system at various casinos. Supplied with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash by several anonymous investors, the students used role-playing, verbal clues and tics, and card counting to win millions of dollars.
"Rigged" is the startling true story of David Russo, a rags-to-riches tale of a Brooklyn kid turned Harvard grad. He took on the old-world hierarchy and its powerful, monied kings, and set out to do the impossible--to build an energy exchange in the middle of the Arab world.
The bestselling author of Bringing Down the House brings us the true story of a group of elite hedge fund cowboys, adrenaline junkies who rode the Japanese markets to the brink of bankruptcy and became millionaires while still in their twenties.
Follow an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses who legally took Las Vegas casinos for over three million dollars--while still finding time for college keg parties, football games, and final exams--in this true story behind the soon-to-be-released film.
From the author of "Bringing Down the House" and "Ugly Americans" comes "a riveting story about kids with excess brainpower taking on casinos with excess money... A gripping true-life adventure that will keep you reading well past your bedtime."--"The Boston Globe."
The bestselling author of "Bringing Down the House" pens the incredible true story of the accidental creation of Facebook, and the even more amazing tale of what happened afterward--a real-life adventure filled with unimaginable wealth, sex, exotic locales, six-foot-five identical-twin Olympic rowers, and betrayal.
The true account of an MIT prodigy who mastered a legal gambling process that enabled him to win large stakes in Las Vegas describes the wild rumors that surrounded his casino visits and the violent backlash that nearly cost him his life.
When medical students harvesting skin from a corpse accidentally take it from the wrong donor, a New York City hospital is destroyed in a bloodbath. While police track an elderly professor on the run, Mulder and Scully follow a different hunch to the jungles of Thailand, home of a legendary monster known as the "Skin Eater."
A medical student responds to a plea from an old girlfriend to look into the death of her father, formerly Secretary of Defense. What he finds leads him to believe that the death may have been genetically engineered. But by whom? And why?
This nail-biting chronicle follows an exclusive group of audacious MIT math geniuses that legally takes Las Vegas casinos for over $3 million. Filled with tense action, high stakes, and incredibly close calls, this true story has been adapted by Columbia/Tri-Star and Sony Pictures for a feature film, starring Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne, ...
Renowned researcher Jake Foster uncovers a terrifying secret behind Boston's rising infertility rate. Meanwhile, in a nearby ER, his wife, Dr. Brett Foster, unsuccessfully tries to save a young man with no visible injuries from bleeding to death--the fifth such fatality in a week. Working together, Jake and Brett discover that the two epidemics ...
For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his wake. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, ...
This true story recounts how a group of MIT students used their intellectual skills to beat the system at various casinos. Supplied with hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash by several anonymous investors, the students used role-playing, verbal clues and tics, and card counting to win millions of dollars.
THE X-FILES POSTCARD BOOKS are designed for the many fans of the incredibly popular Fox television drama series. MONSTERS AND MUTANTS contains a vivid collection of 30 full-color postcards depicting the haunting, bizarre, and terrifying monsters that have taken over the imaginations of millions of viewers. Perfect for mailing, collecting or ...
Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. "Bringing Down the House" is one of the exceptions. Cheating in casinos is illegal; and card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos ...
Millions of fans of the movie won't want to miss a minute of the action or a single word of the dialogue in the official scriptbook to "Alien Resurrection". One can read the same lines and set directions used by the cast and production crews to create the greatest special effects science fiction event since "Independence Day". photo insert.
After five weeks on the "New York Times" bestseller list in hardcover, Mezrich's inside story of the young card-counting masterminds who took on Vegas is poised to reach an even wider audience in its new paperback edition.
For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'; the biggest high roller to hit Sin City in decades, a hotshot, twenty one year-old kid with a seemingly unlimited bankroll and an even more unlimited lust for big money action. His name was Semyon Dukatch, and stories swirled in his wake. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, ...
A virus is spreading through televisions and personal computers. But it doesn't just destroy hard drives--it kills people. When nine lawyers on a conference call drop dead, and a young woman expires while watching television in Vermont, virologist Samantha Craig and paramedic Nick Barnes join forces to fight the virus known as the "Reaper," before ...
A New York Times Bestseller Semyon Dukach was known as the Darling of Las Vegas. A legend at age twenty-one, this cocky hot-shot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop - that has never been revealed until now. This is Dukach's ...
John Malcolm is barely 30, a high school football hero and Princeton graduate, he controls a hedge fund worth $50m. He made his millions back in the early '90's, a time when dozens of elite young American graduates made their fortunes in hedge funds in the Far East, beating the Japanese at their own game, riding the crashing waves of the Asian ...
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