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2) High stakes
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Logan Tanner volume 1
Description
"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between two Russian mafia bosses...
4) Nobody move
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Nobody Move, which first appeared in the pages of Playboy, is the story of an assortment of lowlifes in Bakersfield, California, and their cat-and-mouse game over $2.3 million. Touched by echoes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, Nobody Move is at once an homage to and a variation on literary form. It salutes one of our most enduring and popular genres - the American crime novel- but with a grisly humor and outrageousness that are Denis Johnson's...
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Mojo series (Linda Lael Miller) volume 1
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Mojo Sheepshanks hasn't quite figured out who she is or how to get on with her life. She spends her days playing the slot machines at Bad-Ass Bert's Biker Saloon. However, she would like to get cozy with a hot cop, but he has his own baggage. Suddenly she's seeing ghosts and turning up clues to her real identity. A wealthy man is claiming to be her long-lost uncle and she's being followed by an ex-con brother, as Mojo races to uncover the facts.
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"Vienna Mortenson isn't your typical gambler. She prefers to stay under the radar, using her poker winnings to support her family and her community, including the local search and rescue team, which she heads up. Out in the backcountry there's no time for hesitation when lives are on the line. Vienna prides herself on being tough and decisive. She's not the sort to make a fool of herself over a guy, especially one who left her high and dry without...
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Hopkins, the hydrophobic, noisy-kneed son of a preacher, renounces his father's stern religion in favour of the Anglican Church. Lucinda Leplastrier, a frizzy-haired heiress, impulsively buys a glass factory with the inheritance forced on her by a well-intentioned adviser. When the two finally meet, on board a ship to New South Wales, they are bound by their affinity for gambling and risk, their loneliness, and their awkwardly blossoming mutual affection....
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Duke hunt novels volume 2
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"The owner of London's most popular gaming hell, wealthy and powerful Silas Masters, is feared by men and desired by women--except Mercy Kittinger. When the blackguard wins her family home in a game of cards, Mercy steals into Silas's rooms, intent on destroying the proof. But things don't go to plan... She would have her way with him... Caught in the act, Mercy must be bold to save herself...even if it means seducing the dangerous rogue and then...
11) Belle Cora
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"In the grand tradition of Moll Flanders and Vanity Fair, this is the story of a good girl who became a bad woman. At the old homestead her name is never spoken and her picture is turned to the wall, but in the vast world beyond everyone remembers her as the celebrated madam of the finest parlor house in San Francisco. Now, at the end of her life, after half a century of successfully hiding the details of her scarlet past, Belle has decided to reveal...
12) Grift sense
Author
Series
Tony Valentine mysteries volume 1
Pub. Date
2003, c2001
Edition
First Ballatine Books ed.
Description
Amidst the neon and the big special ugly of Las Vegas, mild-mannered Frank Fontaine is beating the brains out of the Acropolis Casino. The house cops think the dealer, a blonde named Nola, is part of the con, but no one can prove a thing. For Tony Valentine, it's the first new scam he's seen in decades - and maybe the best.
13) Sin city
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Description
Jack "Lucky" Riordan is the illegitimate and unwanted son of millionaire Howard Hughes, exiled from Las Vegas to face a hardscrabble existence. In 1960, an adult Riordan returns to Vegas, seeking his fortune in the gaming industry. His street smarts stand him in good stead as he shrewdly acquires wealth and power. As usual, the plot is spiced up with loads of fantastical sex and nymphomaniacal women, but this time Mob entanglements and backstabbing...
14) Wild star
Author
Series
Star quartet volume 3
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Brent Hammond is as handsome as sin and wilder than an unbroken stallion. When he meets Byrony by chance, he's charmed. But when he sees her again, as the petted wife of an older rich man, he's chagrined. Until her life is threatened-and he discovers that only he can protect her.
Author
Pub. Date
2002
Description
Thirty-five-year-old Matthew Cape becomes trapped in a web of gambling, greed, and murder when he confronts a pair of grifters who have cheated him in a card game and is able to recover his money along with evidence that the duo plans to blackmail a wealthy Lake Tahoe couple.
18) Mean streets
Pub. Date
2001, c1973
Edition
Widescreen format; special ed.
Description
Charlie is a small-time crook working his way up the ranks of the local mob. His friend Johnny Boy is a small-time gambler in debt to the loan sharks, and his family disapproves of his girlfriend due to her epilepsy.
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