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    Deadman's Poker: A Novel
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    Deadman's Poker: A Novel

    By James Swain

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    Tony Valentine is an expert at spotting cheats. He’s tossed them out of gambling casinos from Atlantic City to Las Vegas and Monaco. But though Tony has never met a scam he couldn’t crack, his son and partner, Gerry, has just walked into one with a body count.

    What started with a conman’s deathbed confession turns into a deadly Las Vegas grudge match during the world’s biggest poker tournament. While Gerry and his shady friends tangle with the Vegas mob, Tony enlists the aid of an aging grifter who’s fleecing suckers with a dazzling array of improbable betting stunts. Tony’s been hired to save the tournament (and stop a blind player who’s out to heist it), while Gerry’s just trying to stay alive–now that murder is in the cards.

    Featuring insider tips for catching poker cheats, as well as a glossary of card hustler terms!
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateApr 25, 2006
    ISBN9780345493750
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    Deadman's Poker: A Novel
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    James Swain

    James Swain is the Amazon Charts bestselling author of more than twenty mystery novels and has worked as a magazine editor, a screenwriter, and a novelist. His books have been translated into a dozen languages and have been selected as Mysteries of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Kirkus Reviews. The author of two previous novels in the Lancaster & Daniels series, The King Tides and No Good Deed, Swain has been nominated for five Barry Awards, has received a Florida Book Award for fiction, and was awarded France’s prestigious Prix Calibre .38 for Best American Crime Writing. When he isn’t writing, he enjoys performing close-up magic. Visit him at http://jamesswain.com.

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    • 5/5
      In Deadman's Poker, Swain gives us yet again another terrific thriller about Tony Valentine, gambling, cheaters, and more. In fact, Swain
      gives us his most ambitious effort yet with a plot line spanning two
      novels (Deadman's Poker and Deadman's Bluff). However, While the
      entire plot does not play out in this book, readers are not left on a
      cliffhanger and reading this book alone can be satisfying.

      This book takes place in Las Vegas as many of the books in this series, for obvious reasons do. The focus is on a nationally televised poker
      tournament and Valentine's role in snooping out cheaters. Valentine, if you skipped ahead to this book without reading the first five in the
      series, is a retired Atlantic City detective, who now runs a business
      called Grift Sense, so called because Valentine has an uncanny knack for spotting scams and cons so much so that just about every casino in the world sends him surveillance tapes to get his take on things.
      Interspersed with Valentine's investigation here are the antics of his
      son Gerry who is sort of a junior partner but who can't stay out of
      trouble as well as the comic wide-eyed betting of an old poker
      champion determined to clean up on outrageous bets to fleece suckers on such things as a foot race with a racehorse. Also, mixing it in with these episodes is Valentine's romance with a crack news reporter given a last chance to break a good story.

      It's a fine thriller with plenty of fights, shootings, doublecrosses, and action. Juxtaposing the cops and robbers effort to get the bad guys
      with the other episodes gives the story a fine balance.
      As with all the books in this series, this is a terrific fun book to read
      and highly recommended.