Last Call

, #1

Hardcover, 479 pages

English language

Published April 1992 by William Morrow.

ISBN:
978-0-688-10732-1
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OCLC Number:
24468483
ISFDB ID:
1646

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The terrifying Las Vegas of Tim Powers's imagination is one that secretly animates the neon-lit gambling capital we all think we know. It is a world in which superstition assumes the power of religion, the gambling tables are strange altars to chaotic gods, and luck becomes a deity literally made flesh.

Ten years ago Scott Crane quit playing Poker professionally — and he hasn't been to Las Vegas or held a hand of cards since. But now he's having nightmares about a strange Poker game that took place on a houseboat on Lake Mead in 1969. The game in which he won a fortune twenty- one years ago is, in a supernatural sense, not finished yet. The money he took home was actually in exchange for his life…and perhaps his soul. And there's one hand yet to be played, a last terrible bet to be called, and he will have …

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