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"Betting all you have cleans the system," says young Wall Street paralegal Tom Reasons as he hands over $400 of his weekly $447 paycheck to his bookie, Toadie, in bets on baseball games. But it's the low-profile sport of darts that gets Tom into real trouble, in this raucous, raunchy thriller. When he loses $40,000 on the toss of a feathered sliver of steel, Tom has to outsmart Mafia loan sharks to stay in one piece. Along the way, Frank Baldwin manages to tap into the energy of ambitious, amoral, and frighteningly fascinating 20-somethings. |
Hired by Bernie D'Angelo to find his brother, private eye Frank Sweeney tracks Nick D'Angelo to Atlantic City, where he finds the missing brother burned to death and embarks on a desperate search for a killer." |
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King of the poker players from his suburban enclave in Maryland to Washington, D.C., Joey Moore faces a crisis in his life when an gambling opponent commits suicide and an unwanted baby is forced on him. |
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A journeyman author recounts his coming of age under the guidance of an admirable outlaw father. The title, no less spare than the text, encapsulates it all. Setting his story in Baltimore a generation or two ago, with flashes forward to recent years, Offit leaves his accustomed venue of fiction for young readers (What Kind of Guy Do You Think I Am?, 1977, etc.) in order to paint a fond portrait of his father, Buckley Offit, Prince of the Streets. Offit pŠre, his son reports, was, from the end of the First World War until the '50s, quite simply ``among the elite of the nation's bookmakers.'' Buck got busted just once, but he never served time. Just once the Mob tried to grab him, but Buck fought them off. The archetype of a respected, street-smart, self-reliant operator, the bookie was a loving father and husband during nonworking hours. No deceptive duke, Buck never lied or fooled anyone. In the eyes of his sons, he was wonderful. His wife, Lily, practical mother, reader of Montaigne, was unconditionally devoted. And why not? The character portrayed is a gruff rascal and, simultaneously, a careful, utterly trustworthy Jewish dad. The combination worked. ``How'd it go at yer office today?'' he inquired when his young sons came home from school. ``We all take our lumps...Buy yerself a new hat and keep going'' was his stoic and sartorial philosophy. Don't search here for details of living on the lam or for hints on the business of taking bets. This book is straightforward homage to a father who, before his death at 96, summarized his career in crime: ``What's the ussa talkin'? What's done is done.'' A son's personal recollection that may strike a chord for others. -- Copyright ©1995, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. |
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When he witnessed his father's fierce resistance to a gang of kidnappers, Sidney Offit became aware that his family was different. He once overheard a camp counselor call him the richest kid in camp because, "Offit's father is the biggest bookie in Baltimore and maybe even the entire United States." In this elegant memoir, Offit--novelist, teacher, and curator of one of the country's most prestigious journalism awards--explores the complexities of his extraordinary father-son relationship. |
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A pill-popping lingerie businessman, Murray Zemelman leaves his "boring" life in New Jersey to go to Key West, where he and his Native American friend find themselves fighting to save their money, lives, and new business (Key West's first legal gambling parlor) from a local mafioso. Tour. |
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In The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada's Casinos, criminologists Ronald Farrell and Carole Case uncover the unfair regulation of Nevada's lucrative gambling industry. The "Black Book" is a list of "notorious and unsavory persons" prohibited from participating in Nevada gaming. By examining regulatory hearing records on gaming from 1950 to the present, Farrell and Case reveal unfair targeting of Italian-Americans and others fitting the "Mafia" stereotype. The authors explore the cases of two such "excluded persons", Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and Anthony Spilotro, also the principle characters in the Martin Scorsese film Casino. Farrell and Case maintain that the Black Book is used to make the gaming industry appear clean, that is, free of Mob influence. In fact, they say, corporate crime presents a greater and unacknowledged danger to Nevada's gambling business. |
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In The Black Book and the Mob: The Untold Story of the Control of Nevada's Casinos, criminologists Ronald Farrell and Carole Case uncover the unfair regulation of Nevada's lucrative gambling industry. The "Black Book" is a list of "notorious and unsavory persons" prohibited from participating in Nevada gaming. By examining regulatory hearing records on gaming from 1950 to the present, Farrell and Case reveal unfair targeting of Italian-Americans and others fitting the "Mafia" stereotype. The authors explore the cases of two such "excluded persons", Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal and Anthony Spilotro, also the principle characters in the Martin Scorsese film Casino. Farrell and Case maintain that the Black Book is used to make the gaming industry appear clean, that is, free of Mob influence. In fact, they say, corporate crime presents a greater and unacknowledged danger to Nevada's gambling business. |
As the economy sours for people at the bottom, the long odds have become their only odds for making a better life. In this stunning collection of articles from US News and World Report, Newsday, and Nation and elsewhere, Jennifer Vogel has assembled an indictment of gambling that leaves nothing to chance. |
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For twelve years Jimmy "The Greek" Synder rattled off predictions for upcoming games and titillated fans with sports gossip. Burly and unpolished, this high-school dropout created an excitement and spontaneity unfamiliar to previous pregame-show formats. Jimmy died in Las Vegas in May, 1996, at the age of 76. Farewell Jimmy The Greek tells the life story of a remarkable man including a double murder-suicide in childhood that left him motherless and spurred a gambling career, the story behind his dismissal from CBS that led to a multimillion-dollar lawsuit, his conviction for interstate gambling, his three-year public relations ventures with Howard Hughes, the story of how he won $170,000 in 1948 betting against presidential candidate Tom Dewey because Dewey had a mustache, the reason he secluded himself during his last eight years of life and the calamity that led to his death, his personal experienced with Ted and Bobby Kennedy, George Wallace, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Telly Savalas, Herschel Walker, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs, Jack Chrysler, H. L. Hunt, and many others This is the story of an American original. |
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Highly entertaining stories about gambling in the mid 1800's on the Mississippi River. The life of George Devol as gambler,fighter & con artist & his insights into the men & their character is also an insight into the man himself. He was a master at manipulating mens greed & vanity.The accounts of his bare knuckle fights were truly amazing. |
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