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.
She's got an uncanny knack for winning at slots, but Mojo Sheepshanks hasn't quite figured out who she is or how to get on with her life. After she starts seeing ghosts and turning up clues into her real identity, she realizes she'll need all her savvy and strange new talents to keep someone from burying her for keeps.
Dickens's novel--in its day, one of his most beloved--follows the career of the depraved dwarf Quilp, and introduces poor, innocent Little Nell, who is too good for this world. When Little Nell and her grandfather are forced to flee Quilp's evil clutches, various upright characters try to intervene and save them, but the frail and debilitated Nell ...
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.
Newly repackaged, the third novel of Coulter's Star saga introduces Brent Hammond, handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When Brent meets Byrony in San Diego, he's charmed. When he sees her again in San Francisco as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. When her life is threatened, however, Brent discovers he's the ...
The beloved storyteller and author of the international bestseller "The Bridges of Madison County" returns with a classic tale of greed, corruption, and redemption in the American West.
Richard Paul Evans' fifth inspirational love story takes readers back to the founding years of Bethel, Utah, the gold mining town where Ethel Huish and her love, Thomas, made their home in THE LOCKET. This time, Hunter Bell, the founder of Bethel and a Presbyterian minister turned gambler, saves lonely, injured Irish immigrant Quaye McGandley from ...
Edited by bestselling author Michael Connelly, this new anthology from the International Society of Crime Writers gathers 22 never-before-published crime and mystery stories about the ultimate playground, Las Vegas, and what can happen behind the glitz and glamour.
The "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Wedding Game" returns with a spectacular new romance in which fate deals one stubbornly single young woman and one deceptively heartless man a shocking hand in a high-stakes bet. But is love in the cards? Original.
Ex-cop turned private security consultant for casinos Tony Valentine returns in his third outing to look into a scam in the Everglades. It seems that the casino owners, the Micanopy Indians, don't like it when one man wins more than 80 hands of blackjack in a row, but no one can quite figure out how it was done. Tony soon uncovers a chain of cons ...
Billy Phelan, small-time bookie, pool hustler, and poker player becomes an unlikely go-between in the 1938 kidnapping of an Albany political boss's son.
On a cold December night in 1920s Atlanta, a drunken white cop shoots a black gambler in one of the worst parts of town, and a cache of jewels goes missing from a mansion in one of the best. Joe Rose - rambler, gambler, and professional thief - has just hit the city. He soon finds himself caught in a three-sided puzzle that involves a black ...
In 26 essays, Konik introduces readers to the quirky subculture of high rollers and hustlers as he profiles professional, compulsive, and possibly insane gamblers. 8-page photo insert.
The first in a two-novel, back-to-back series follows scam-buster Tony Valentine as he heads to Sin City to match wits with killer cardsharks working the ultimate con. Includes insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms. Original.
Nick Nicocropolis, the owner of a Vegas casino that has seen better days, hires a consultant named Tony Valentine to study some surveillance tapes of a suspiciously lucky casino customer named Frank Fontaine who Nicocropolis is sure is up to some sophisticated scam--possibly with the aid of his dealer, Nola Briggs, who is Nick's ex-lover. Tony, a ...
Jim Nashe, a Boston firefighter abandoned by his wife, inherits money that he promptly squanders on an aimless, endless drive across America. Close to desperation, he meets a bitter young itinerant card sharp, Jack Pozzi, who lures him into a poker game with two shady recluses, Flower and Stone, on their Pennsylvania estate. Nashe and Pozzi lose ...
The author of more than ten books on gambling now examines the psychological, discipline, and money-management aspects of a gaming session and teaches the gambler how to hold on to his winnings while minimizing his losses.
This novel by humorist Dave Barry is about an offshore gambling ship, "The Extravaganza of the Seas," and the gamblers and other characters (including a band called Johnny and the Contusions) who are aboard when a devastating tropical storm strikes the Florida coast.
This posthumous Harold Robbins novel is set in Las Vegas and focuses on the illegitimate son of Howard Hughes who grows up to be security chief in a casino.
"A scalding, thrilling book" - "Observer". Set in the Maltese community of Tiger Bay, and peopled with sharp-edged, luminously drawn characters, "The Hiding Place" is the story of Frank Gauci, his wife Mary, and their six daughters. Through the eyes of Dolores, the youngest daughter, we see the underworld of 1960's Cardiff, a life of gaming rooms ...
Novelists Frederick and Stephen Barthelme write candidly about their extremely destructive gambling addiction--which resulted in losses at Mississippi casinos of a quarter of a million dollars--and about the accusation made against them of cheating at the tables, a charge of which they were ultimately acquitted. A New York Times Notable Book for ...
A battered snakeskin "shamisen" (a traditional Okinawan musical instrument) left at the scene of a crime leads Mas Arai to a dark mystery that reaches from the islands of Okinawa to the streets of L.A.--a world of heartbreaking memories, deception, and murder.
When his father is sentenced to death by hanging for murder, Detective William Murdoch is torn--on one hand, the man was a terrible father, dishing out beatings with alarming regularity, but on the other, though certainly guilty of other crimes, he may actually be innocent of this particular one. In this, his fourth case, Murdoch travels across ...
Gambler Jack Bell is so good that Early Philpot wants him dead. But up in the mountains, Jack can outlast any lowlife posse Early can rustle up. And he's willing to put them all to the test. Original.
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