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102) Through the night
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Recruited by her boss for a top-secret mission along with sexy Reliance Group agent Chase Pierson, Executive Casino Hostess Valerie Downing discovers that all bets are off when she decides to mix business with pleasure.
103) The good thief
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Bob is an aging American thief is living in the French city of Nice. Addicted to both heroin and gambling, Bob is in the midst of an extended personal losing streak when he rescues a new girl in town named Anne from her pimp. When the opportunity to steal a fortune in rare paintings from a Monte Carlo casino comes along, Bob hopes for a score big enough to let him retire from his life of crime. His only hindrances are Anne's man troubles and his nemesis,...
105) Debt collectors
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Debt collectors French and Sue get to work doing what they do best, cracking skulls and breaking bones, as they chase down the various lowlifes who owe money to their boss, Tommy. They're summoned to Las Vegas to collect from a dirty casino owner. Meanwhile, a notorious drug kingpin is on the warpath to kill French and Sue to avenge his brother's death. Facing danger from all angles, the pair will have no other choice but to fight their way out of...
108) Overturned
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Nikki Tate's father has been on death row for killing his best friend in a gambling dispute, but he has always maintained his innocence, and now his conviction has been overturned and he is back at the casino, where high school junior Nikki has been operating illegal poker games in the hopes of saving enough money to get out of Vegas after graduation--and now he is determined to find the real killer, and Nikki is inevitably drawn into his dangerous...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Preparing to launch a high-risk Las Vegas mob museum and casino, publicist Temple Barr uncovers a buried safe and a recently murdered body during a live event and finds herself turning to Midnight Louie's cat posse to stave off mafia threats on her life.
112) Lucky grandma
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
"In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma is eager to live life as an independent woman. When a local fortuneteller predicts a lucky day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck, attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate, Grandma employs the services of a bodyguard from a rival gang and soon finds herself right in the...
113) Throwing 7's
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
PI Bobby Emmet, a former policeman, investigates the murder of a New York couple who refused to surrender a rent-controlled apartment. Suspected is an organization which wants to clear the land for the construction of a gambling casino. By the author of Three Quarters.
Author
Series
Stumptown ; 1
Publisher
Oni Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Dex is the proprietor of Stumptown Investigations, and a fairly talented P.I. Unfortunately, she's less adept at throwing dice than solving cases. Her recent streak has left her beyond broke - she's into the Confederated Tribes of the Wind Coast for 18 large. But maybe Dex's luck is about to change. Sue-Lynne, head of the Wind Coast's casino operation, will clear Dex's debt if she can locate Sue-Lynne's missing granddaughter. But is this job Dex's...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Earley takes a look at the checkered history of Las Vegas - when moguls, mobsters, and the world's top entertainers came together to create this ultimate monument to American excess. This book reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn, Vegas legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and the rise and fall and rise again of the entrepreneurs behind one of the largest gaming corporations in the nation, the colossus...
116) Sleepless
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs, who is caught in a high stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground. When a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice." --
Publisher
National Geographic Channel
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Mega plane: Hop aboard a plane that redefines jumbo, the C5 Galaxy. This Mega Plane is almost as long as a football field and stretches six stories high. With a wingspan of 223 feet, and a cargo compartment as big as an eight-lane bowling alley, the C5 can move big things almost anywhere in a hurry. Inside a super casino: Go inside the creation of a world-class Super Casino as National Geographyc follows the construction of the Borgata Hotel and...
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As night falls on Macau and the neon signs that line the rain-slick streets come alive, Doyle - "Lord Doyle" to his fellow players - descends into his casino of choice to try his luck at the baccarat tables that are the anchor of his current existence. A corrupt English lawyer who has escaped prosecution by fleeing to the East, Doyle spends his nights drinking and gambling and his days sleeping off his excesses, continually haunted by his past. Taking...
120) The jade tiger
Author
Series
Publisher
Ink Dog Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"NEW YORK, OCTOBER 1928. The Big Apple teems with the glitter of Bright Young Things, Prohibition, and scofflaws--the perfect place for Penelope Harris to start her life over. As a former opera singer turned Shanghai nightclub owner, she's seen and done a lot, maybe too much. With any luck, she'll leave more than The Jade Tiger casino behind her--a murdered husband, a blackmailing torch singer, and Thom Lund, the ex-cop who stole her heart. But Penelope...
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