544 pages
English language
Published Dec. 1, 1996 by Harper Paperbacks.
One–time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't 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 –– a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner –– are drawing him back to the magical city. Because the mythic game did not end that night in 1969. And the price of his winnings was his soul. And now a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.
Une histoire complexe mettant en scène une famille recomposée de joueurs de poker, aux prises avec un jeu pouvant leur arracher l'âme. C'est bien écrit, et ça me rappelé par certains aspects Dirk Gently et ses histoires bizarres.
Continues to be one of my favorite Tim Powers Novels.
