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Scott Crane has avoided the bright lights of Las Vegas and the shuffle of cards for a decade. Yet vivid nightmares of a 1969 poker match on a houseboat on Lake Mead force him back to the city. He believes the game he thought he left behind was not finished; the huge payout came at the cost of his soul. Now a far more dangerous—and supernatural—pot hinges on a single card, and Crane must risk everything to retrieve what he once lost.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Fantasy/Urban Fantasy
Authors: Tim Powers
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