By Roland Jefferson

It’s the 1970’s in Howard Hughes’ Las Vegas, the place Elvis reigns as king, Wayne Newton is the crown prince, and Liberace the court docket jester. every little thing else is up for grabs. the place on line casino banks are open 24 hours an afternoon, and fortunes huge and small are gained and misplaced at the video games of probability. And so too is the ever-present felony aspect decided to overcome the percentages by way of hatching unlawful schemes so weird and wonderful as to be fun. however the plan positioned forth to swindle the casinos out of thousands by way of Jefferson’s protagonist proves to be no guffawing topic. Led through Bernie, a manipulative charismatic psychopath who pulls jointly a staff of rich gamblers to drag off a fancy and foolproof plan to overcome the casinos and go away town with hundreds of thousands. yet with a view to win, they'd first need to lose—they must lose 15 million funds in seventy two hours at each on line casino in Las Vegas. and never one minute more―because we all know what occurred to Cinderella whilst the clock struck midnight.....
And so starts the intriguing drama of five unforgettable characters charged with pulling off a posh Las Vegas heist and their race opposed to time and a clock that keeps ticking correct as much as the final moment of the unpredictable and explosive end. And proving finally that the ‘strip’s ‘ first benefactor gangster Bugsy Siegel used to be right—that Las Vegas used to be now not a urban outfitted on winners.

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