Last Call

By: Tim Powers

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player 20 years ago and hasn’t returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in 10 years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969—and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card.

Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, this World Fantasy Award–winning novel is a masterpiece of magic realism set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas.

.©1992 Tim Powers (P)2010 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

“A dizzying, stimulating magnum opus.” ( USA Today)

“Brilliant! Compelling and satisfying! Tim Powers is one of our best writers, and Last Call is his best book yet.” (Raymond E. Feist)

“Distinctive and commanding…a strikingly inventive novel.” ( Publishers Weekly)

Going for sequel!

I would listen to Bronson Pinchot read the phone book. He is the best. Interesting story, different from what I expected which is always welcome.

Great Great Great Story!

Tim Powers what a unique writer. His stories are unlike any thing else. I loved Anubis Gates as do most people who know Tim Powers. I finally got around to checking this out, alot said its similar tp American Gods, it is somewhat. But not really Tim fills you with a sense of urgency where Gaiman fills you with whimsy. Tims characters are real and you feel their despair, their decline, their triumphs. The reader, well Pinchot is one of those readers that is simultaneously brilliant and completely frustrating at the same time. His tone and range are great for certain parts, but his pacing and generic narrator voice will leave you hitting the rewind button quite a bit. This is one I wish I would have bought the book and read instead.

Myth & Reality Collide For an Excellent Tall Tale

Bronson Pinchot does a solid job reading one of my favorite authors. The story can be a bit confusing with its broad cast of characters. It’s an excellent mixture of fact & myth, creating a strange world existing just on the borders of our reality.

Classic Powers

Everything you love from a Tim Powers novel. Transmigration of souls, Jungian archetypes, ancient mythology, bloody conflict, and enough alcohol to sink a houseboat. Beware the one-eyed Jack.

Powers Rocks

Tim Powers is neither sci-fi nor fantasy (at least no in any conventional sense), he writes very interesting stories where impossible things happen. In Last Call, he's mixing cold war spy stories with old school middle eastern mythology, and pulls it off brilliantly. Pinchot would not be my first choice for this book but he does a very good job.