Description: A struggling artist who plays poker in order to pay his bills witnesses a murder in one of New York's underground clubs. With the walls closing in around him, he's forced to take the biggest gamble of his life in order to keep his family together.
Review Quotes: "Here is the poker novel I've been waiting years for someone to write. It doesn't just feel true. It is."
--Brian Koppelman, co-writer of Rounders and Billions"What a ride! I have to confess sometimes the anxiety was so great I had to put the book down and build up my courage before I could pick it up again. But I was so glad I did and was bereft when the book ended-sad to be off this roller coaster ride through the world of live-or-die high-stakes poker and marriage."--Beverly Donofrio, author of Riding in Cars with Boys and Astonished.
"It's like a sequel to Walker Percy's The Moviegoer-with poker as a stand-in for movies, and the protagonist now having married and become a father. I started reading, couldn't stop."- Tom Beller, author of J.D. Salinger: The Escape Artist