Bringing Down The House
Ben Mezrich
Real life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions: a real-life action thriller oozing with money, sex and some extremely dodgy dealing...
Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises. Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful financial scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos and blackjack tables of Las Vegas, in the process getting drawn into the high life of drugs, sex and spending big.
Bringing Down the House is as readable and as fascinating as Liar's Poker or Barbarians At the Gate, an insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world of gambling in Las Vegas.
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Reviews for Bringing Down The House
Lorenzo Carcaterra A surreal cacophony of glamour, suspense and, eventually, terror. Part Tom Clancy, part Elmore Leonard...Gripping
The List
The tale laid out in Bringing Down the House is so beguiling, so agreeably reminiscent of, say Ocean's Eleven or House of Games that you find yourself mentally casting the parts as you read along... A fine yarn' Sunday Times A lively tale that could pass for thriller fiction ... Mezrich's skilled yet easy writing draws sweat to the reader's brow
Rocky Mountain News
Bringing Down the House has a sensational story to tell
Literary Review
Astonishing real life tale, with enough info to do it yourself
FHM
'Seminal... Classic rags to riches, with lots of sex and plenty of danger, set in ever sparkling Las Vegas
Daily Mirror
Gripping. It is the gang's constant fear of being unmasked that makes this book so exciting. [I read] this thrilling book in almost one sitting - it is, to use that cliche, 'unputdownable'. A book that will surely become a classic of its genre
Sunday Express