Last Call - Hardcover

Powers, Tim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 068810732X ISBN 13: 9780688107321

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 1992

Synopsis

Retired gambler Scott Crane is forced back into the "game" by the legacy of his father, who had seized control of the Las Vegas gambling empire in the 1940s. By the author of The Anubis Gates. 20,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards--but now the cards, and the supernatural powers behind them, have found him again.Crane's father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become King of the West, and to keep that power he is now determined to kill his son--and Scott Crane must cross the Mojave Desert to his father's Perilous Chapel in Las Vegas, and take up the cards again for one last poker duel in a deadly game to save his soul.

From the Back Cover:

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers.

Set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, Last Call tells the story of a one-eyed professional gambler who discovers that he was not the big winner in a long-ago poker game . . . and now must play for the highest stakes ever as he searches for a way to win back his soul.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 068810732X
• ISBN 13: 9780688107321
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 479