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"Gambling fans will relish the behind-the-scenes look at Vegas [with] a solid action-movie finale." - Publishers Weekly
Druperman, the head of a confidential cooperative of the most powerful casinos in Las Vegas, has received a videotape threatening violence against the cooperative's members unless a ransom is paid. The criminals identify themselves only by a code name. As the casino owners dig in their heels and refuse to pay, the stakes get higher....
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New York Times–Bestselling Author: A British MP and an intelligence agent suspect a vast conglomerate of drug crimes-but must live long enough to prove it . . .
In the jungles of northern Burma, land has been cleared and construction of a large, luxurious resort is well underway. At the same time, Burmese heroin has suddenly started pouring into Western nations. British agent Patrick Hyde suspects it isn't a coincidence.
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In American Roulette, Richard Marcus tells his never-before-heard story, of ripping off casinos. The book follows Marcus, along with several of the world's great professional casino cheaters, as he travels from Las Vegas to London and Monte Carlo, pilfering large sums of money from casinos by performing sleight of hand magic tricks with gaming chips. As skilled cheaters, they back up their moves with psychological setups to convince pit bosses that...
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Las Vegas, 1970s, a golden age of Glitter Gulch corruption. Dennis Gomes, the youngest division chief in Gaming Control Board history-whipped a ragtag group of auditors into hardened, gun-slinging investigators, and shattered clichés about milquetoast accountant cops. Coming within a hair's breadth of death more than once, Gomes capped off his tenure with the famous bust of the Stardust skim, portrayed in the book and movie Casino. In ‘Hit Me!”,...
65) Double up
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Davis Way crime caper volume 6
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"Fasten your seatbelts for non-stop action as stiff competition blows into town and the resulting turbulence threatens to take down the Bellissimo Resort and Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. Super Secret Spy Davis Way Cole, who lives on the twenty-ninth floor of the hotel with her CEO husband and newborn twins, takes it hard. If the casino goes belly up, she won't be a stay-at-home mom because she won't have a home. Not to mention her husband won't...
67) Skim deep
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Nolan novels volume 8
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"The onetime world-class thief Nolan - now happily gone straight with his own restaurant/nightclub - whisks his longtime lover Sherry off to Vegas for a trip to a wedding chapel and a honeymoon stay. But an eye-in-the-sky security cam at a casino spots Nolan, whose past catches up with him when he's thought to be casing the joint. An old "friend" sees Nolan as the perfect patsy for a scheme to heist the weekly skim haul, and when the former thief's...
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Running their Los Angeles casino has been rewarding for Luke Chance and his three brothers, Malachi, Roman, and Genesis. But recently it seems like everyone is trying to get a piece of the pie. Word on the streets alert the Chance brothers of an impending hostile takeover of their casino, which could leave Luke and his brothers penniless and possibly dead. That is until their twenty-five year old sister Keilah Chance, who lives in D. C., comes home...
72) Whisper no lies
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When a high roller at the Vegas casino where Crystal Debrowski manages security makes a scandalous proposition, she flat-out refuses, especially given rumors of his shady overseas connections. Despite his big, flirty grin, Texas heartbreaker Johnny Duane Reed can't get sassy Crystal off his mind. When she is abducted by an international crime lord with a threatening obsession, Reed enlists his Black Ops, Inc. team to pursue a dangerous mission to...
73) 21
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Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack card counting. Intrigued by the desire to make money,...
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As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord Doyle" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking...
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Silhouette romantic suspense volume 1556
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Shell-shocked detective Natalie Rothchild wasn't sure what stung more-;knowing that her twin had paid dearly for flaunting their fortune at a Las Vegas hot spot-;or prying information from the man who went AWOL after promising her forever.
In between lame excuses and darkly possessive glances, casino security expert Matt Schaffer revealed how the bejeweled tabloid queen sashayed down the red carpet before she died. Yet he couldn't say whether Natalie...
76) Drawing hearts
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Taking over the boutiques at her grandmother's Reno casino is a lucky break for fashion buyer Kenzie Russell. But while she relishes the challenges at Casa de Mariposa, Kenzie longs to launch her own designer line. There's also another distractionReed Watson, the supersmart, ubersexy tech guru who's generously offered to fix the casino's software glitches. Ever since he made his first fortune before the age of twenty-one, Reed has been surrounded...
77) Double knot
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Davis Way crime caper volume 5
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"Super Spy Davis Way sets sail on a Caribbean cruise aboard the MS Probability with fifty billionaires, a boatload of Louis Vuitton luggage, Anderson Cooper, and her mother. (Her mother?) The weather is perfect, the seas are calm, and Suite 704 is spectacular. Until the door slams shut. For good. Obviously, it's a system glitch. Surely someone will show up to free Davis, Miss Hawaii, and the creepy staff. But when the minutes turn to hours and the...
78) Lucky break
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"With Christmas a few days away, Lucky O'Toole, Vice President of Customer Relations for the Babylon, Las Vegas's premier Strip casino resort, is in a festive mood. The upcoming wedding of her assistant and her own engagement have Lucky in full holiday cheer. The only sour note is her former lover, Teddie. When she finds Teddie and her father standing over musician Holt Box's lifeless body Lucky must discover whether Teddie is a killer... and why...
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"Kirk Kerkorian was a pioneering American aviator, movie mogul, risk taker, and business tycoon who transformed Las Vegas and Hollywood to become one of this country's leading financiers. His life story demonstrates the cool daring of a World War II pilot, the grit of a scrappy boxer, the cunning of an inscrutable poker player, and an unmatched genius for making deals. While he never put his name on a building, Kerkorian owned most of the major hotels...
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ATAC BRIEFING FOR AGENTS FRANK AND JOE HARDY.
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Look into the disappearance of Kathy Boutry, a college reporter who was hot on the trail of several huge stories.
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Atlantic City, NJ.
POTENTIAL VICTIMS:
The longer Kathy's missing, the more danger she's in. And if one of you gets too close to the truth, you could be the next target.
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Kathy was about to reveal secrets that would put a number of very important people in serious...
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