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Author: James McManus
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Publish Date: 2006-12-01
Features: In May 2000, Las Vegas. The 31st World Series of Poker, the largest in the world, was about to begin. At the same time, the verdict on the mysterious death of the former host of the championship, Dee Brenner, was under intense scrutiny. James McManus, a novelist and poet from Chicago, was sent to Las Vegas by Harper's magazine to cover the tournament and closely follow the murder trial. As an author who had always been fond of card games, McManus, armed with the magazine's advance payment, walked into the Carousel Casino, where the championship was held. How could he not seize the opportunity to give it a shot. And so, a card game and battle filled with wisdom, courage, deception, and luck, intertwined between hell and Dante, strippers and gangsters, lawyers and forensic experts, science and gambling, was launched.