Leaving Las Vegas, the first novel by John O'Brien, is a disturbing and emotionally wrenching story of a woman who embraces life and a man who rejects it, a powerful tale of hard luck and hard drinking and a relationship of tenderness and destruction. An avowed alcoholic, Ben drinks away his family,
All in (Leaving Las Vegas)
β Scribed by Barley, Aleah
- Book ID
- 108880263
- Publisher
- Entangled: Ignite
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Series
- Leaving Las Vegas 2
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781633755291
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β¦ Synopsis
HeοΏ½s playing for her heart...
World-class statistician and poker prodigy Daisy Drake has two rules: never risk anything you canοΏ½t afford to lose, and never, ever, trust a gambler. Which is why she gave up the game and moved to Los Angeles, where she became a tenured professor. But when an old acquaintance calls needing DaisyοΏ½s...expertise...to help catch a cheater, she heads back to Las Vegas and the poker tables.
FBI Agent Ryan DiNattoοΏ½s been a gambler since he was four, and a hustler since he hit puberty. Coming off an undercover mission that ended with him shot and his partner in a wheelchair, RyanοΏ½s out for blood. With a mob accountant and a hit man on the loose, the stakes have never been higher, and this time, heοΏ½s determined to make things rightοΏ½even if it means beating spunky, sexy, Daisy Adams at her own game.
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O'Brien's first novel, which uses a present-tense format for immediacy and heavy-handed irony to call attention to its characters' delusions and false optimism, explores a merciless world ruled by sex and booze. Sera, a surprisingly well-paid hooker from L.A., finds making a living in the squalid st