Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and hasnt returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Awardwinning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas.