Scott Crane forgotten his career as a professional poker player two decades ago and hasn’t came back to NEVADA, or held a hand of cards, in a decade. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on the houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back again to the marvelous city. For the mythic video game he thought he won didn’t end that night in 1969-and the price tag on his earnings was his spirit. Now, a container far more strange and perilous than he could ever imagine depends upon the turning of the card.

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Award-winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld referred to as Las Vegas.