
Cold Deck
A Novel
H. Lee Barnes(Author)
University of Nevada Press
Will be published approx. on 30. March 2013
Book
Hardback
216 pages
978-0-87417-884-5 (ISBN)
Description
Jude is a Las Vegas casino dealer who barely survived the deadly MGM fire in 1980. More than two decades later, he's still dealing, a tired, middle-aged man, divorced, struggling with debt, and trying to be a good father to his children. Then he loses his job and his car is totalled in an accident. When an attractive woman friend offers to help him get another job, Jude is happy to go along. Gradually, he realises that his new job is part of an elaborate scheme to cheat a casino and that his own fate and that of his children depend on his finding the courage and ingenuity to extricate himself.
Cold Deck is the exciting story of an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. Moving from Las Vegas's mean streets to the insider's world of casino workers, this is a story of survival set against the greed, fears, and glitz of Sin City.
Cold Deck is the exciting story of an ordinary man who finds himself in extraordinary circumstances. Moving from Las Vegas's mean streets to the insider's world of casino workers, this is a story of survival set against the greed, fears, and glitz of Sin City.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Reno
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 163 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-87417-884-5 (9780874178845)
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H. Lee Barnes is a former Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a deputy sheriff, private investigator, and casino dealer. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas, USA.