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Every girl dreams of meeting her celebrity crush. Unfortunately, my dreams weren't coming true. I was on national television, standing in front of my celebrity nemesis, and ten hours earlier, I had his tongue down my throat.

When it comes to poker, Rose Alfieri and Levi Ivanovich have more in common than just playing the game. It’s what they’ll do to win. Rose is a lie detector in stilettos with a keen eye for body language and seeing a bluff in a single bead of sweat. Then Levi enters her orbit. A nightclub owner and renowned poker player, he’s on the verge of becoming the best. One obstacle stands in his way: Tito Ferragni, a champion who destroyed Levi’s family and left it in ruins. To win a tournament against his sworn enemy, Levi needs a secret weapon like Rose. She’s ready to play.

Named a Best Book of 2018 by the Financial Times and Fortune, this "thrilling" (Bill Gates) New York Times bestseller exposes how a "modern Gatsby" swindled over $5 billion with the aid of Goldman Sachs in "the heist of the century" (Axios). Now a #1 international bestseller, Billion Dollar...

Hit the jackpot with stories from Michael Connelly, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley, Alexander McCall Smith, and more superstars of mystery.

Leonardo DiCaprio. Alex Rodriguez. Tobey Maguire. Affleck. Damon. Cassavetes. What do these people have in common? Not just fame and fortune; all these men are also alumni of the ultra-exclusive, high-stakes poker ring that inspired Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-nominated film, Molly's Game. But Houston Curtis, the card shark who co-founded the game with Tobey Maguire, knows that Sorkin's is the whitewashed version. In Billion Dollar Hollywood Heist, Curtis goes all-in, revealing the true story behind the game.

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

Killer Cards, nombre con el que bautiza la prensa a quien va dejando a su paso cadáveres de personalidades de la sociedad con un as de la baraja de póker en la ropa, tiene un plan trazado con meticulosidad para alcanzar su objetivo y burlar a los investigadores. El caso se convertirá en un fenómeno mediático que mantendrá en vilo a todos los televidentes del país hasta que los agentes atrapen al culpable. Sin embargo, Killer Cards «guarda un as en la manga». ¿Conseguirán atrapar a Killer Cards antes de que complete su póker de asesinatos?

Poker Slam combines the exploits of Utah McCormick as he desperately seeks his reclusive uncle with an authentic poker tournament experience.

Der zum Sonderbeauftragten des Moskauer Generalgouverneurs avancierte Erast Petrowitsch Fandorin sieht sich einer neuen Herausforderung gegenüber: Es gilt, den äußerst geschickten Betrüger ausfindig zu machen, der das Palais des Gouverneurs an einen nichtsahnenden englischen Lord "verkauft" und den erzielten Gewinn eingestrichen hat.

Conrad Browning had money, a manservant and a mission: to find his missing children and meet them for the first time. He's come as far as Denver, dodged a bullet from a beautiful assassin, and landed in a big buy-in poker tournament against a ruthless heavy-betting cattle baron with a plan of his own - to take this city slicker into the wilderness, and hunt him like an animal. But Rance McKinney doesn't know who he is facing. The son of legendary gunman Frank Morgan, Conrad goes by the moniker of the Loner.

Matteo De Foresta, giornalista che abita e lavora a Genova, convive con Barbara. Hanno una figlia ma la loro relazione è in crisi. Decide di aiutare Evgeni, un suo amico scassinatore a cui deve la vita, a scoprire chi ne ha ucciso il cugino. Le indagini lo portano ad un misterioso giocatore del poker online. Con l'aiuto di Attilio, giocatore di poker paralizzato e sulla carrozzina, si infiltra nelle partite clandestine a casa di Rodolfo Mutti, avvocato e primo sospettato.

It’s Labor Day weekend, 1935, and the Darling Dahlias—the garden club in little Darling, Alabama—are trying to keep their cool at the end of a sizzling summer. This isn’t easy, though, since there’s a firebug on the loose in Darling. He—or she!—strikes without apparent rhyme or reason, and things have gotten to the point where nobody feels safe. What’s more, a dangerous hurricane is poised to hurl itself in Darling’s direction, while a hurricane of a different sort is making a whirlwind campaign stop: the much-loved-much-hated senator from Louisiana, Huey P. Long.

Molly Bloom revela cómo construyó uno de los juegos de poker más exclusivos y de grandes apuestas del mundo. Una historia de excesos y peligro, glamur y avaricia. A finales de los años 2000, Molly Bloom, una pequeña joven de veintitantos años originaria de Loveland, Colorado hizo las...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House—the sources for the films The Social Network and 21— comes the larger-than-life true tale of a group of American college buddies who brilliantly built a billion-dollar online poker colossus...

Two New York Times-bestselling psychologists explain the science of cons—and how we can avoid them From phishing scams to Ponzi schemes, fraudulent science to fake art, chess cheaters to crypto hucksters, and marketers to magicians, our world brims with deception. In Nobody’s Fool...

Solo hay una jugada que supera a un póker de ases. A veces para hacer justicia hay que cometer un crimen... o varios. Parece que no todo el mundo ha quedado de acuerdo con la resolución de los asesinatos cometidos por Killer Cards. Unos meses más tarde alguien se empeña en reabrir el caso y todo parece volver a empezar.