Bringing Down The House - Brossura

Mezrich, Ben

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099453177 ISBN 13: 9780099453178

Casa editrice: Arrow, 2003

Riassunto

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions. 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, banning them and using private detectives to share information on suspected and known counters. Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful scam ever,. In which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex. 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.

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Descrizione del libro:

A gripping real-life thriller, which tells the story of a brilliant team of MIT students who won millions at Las Vegas. Oceans' Eleven, but for real.

L'autore:

Ben Mezrich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House in addition to many other books, both fiction and non-fiction. The major motion picture 21, starring Kevin Spacey, was based on Bringing Down the House. The Oscar-winning film The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires. Mezrich lives in Boston with his wife and son.

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• Editore: Arrow
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0099453177
• ISBN 13: 9780099453178
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 304