High Stakes Game Las Vegas Novel 1

by Mariotte, Jeff

• ISBN13: 9781416588832
• ISBN10: 1416588833
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-05
• Publisher: Gallery Books

Summary

READ THE UNTOLD STORY YOU DIDN'T SEE ON TV!Join Ed Deline, President of Operations for the Montecito Resort & Casino, and his protege, Danny McCoy, a former U.S. Marine and Las Vegas native, as they deal with card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck, and rival casinos stealing their big-money players in the town deservedly known as Sin City....Summer. The Montecito has been demolished, and its tight-knit staff has been similarly dismantled, scattered to the four winds.Big Ed and Nessa find intrigue in London, as they try to solve the mystery of her father's fate....While running his dad's construction company, Danny learns that his ex-fiancee Mary is in danger, and takes it upon himself to do something about it....Mike is working at a rival casino, but when he uncovers a suspicious plot afoot, he finds himself becoming the boy who cried wolf....Delinda takes on the challenge of managing an exclusive nightclub, but her tempestuous relationship with a pro football player causes unforeseen troubles....And Sam scrambles to reestablish her reputation (and her bank account).Find out everything you missed during the long hot summer when Danny and his friends struggled to go their separate ways.

Author Biography

Jeff Mariotte is the award-winning author of more than seventy novels, including thrillers Empty Rooms and The Devil’s Bait, supernatural thrillers Season of the Wolf, Missing White Girl, River Runs Red, and Cold Black Hearts, and horror epic The Slab. With his wife, the author Marsheila Rockwell, he wrote the science fiction/horror/thriller 7 SYKOS, and numerous shorter works. He also writes comic books, including the long-running horror/Western comic book series Desperadoes and graphic novels Zombie Cop and Fade to Black. He has worked in virtually every aspect of the book business, including bookselling, marketing, editing, and publishing. He lives in Arizona, in a home filled with books, art, music, toys, and love.