The Odds: One Season, Three Gamblers, and the Death of Their Las Vegas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306811562)

One gambler is a manic former cokehead with an Ivy League degree. The second is a college dropout trying to make a living at the only thing he enjoyed at school -- gambling. The third, one of Vegas's most respected bookmakers, is perilously close to burning out. The Odds follows the lives of these three professional gamblers through a college basketball season in a one-of-a-kind city struggling to reconcile its lawless past with its family-friendly makeover. With a wiseguy attitude and a faultless eye and ear for the sights and sounds of Vegas and its denizens, Chad Millman has created a portrait that the Wall Street Journal called "fascinating. . . often screamingly funny." The Las Vegas Review-Journal had just one word for the book: "Superb."

Author: Chad Millman
ISBN-10: 0306811561
ISBN-13: 9780306811562
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 03/28/2002
Pages: 288
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.52w x 0.78d