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- 9S
- 10-30-09
Fantastic insiders look at Vegas gambling!
Retired cop Tony Vanlentine is back once again, using his expertise of casino gambling and cheating. But he is the good guy, he is called to Vegas to look into allegations that some cheating may be happening in The World Poker Showdown. Valentine encounters some of the more interesting characters to ever cross his path during his career. There is intrigue, danger and of course a scam must be uncovered. Tony Valentine is a wise man, using his vast experience at catching cheaters, as well as a dollop of plain old common sense. You get humour, good detective work and best of all-a look inside the world of casino gambling; which is not always pretty. I have read every one of Swains books and have never been less that greatly entertained. Throw this into your cart, and learn some interesting things about Vegas gambling. You will also see the love Valentine has for his son, who has a habit of getting into sticky situations, yet Valentine stands by his offspring. I listened to Dead Man's Poker in two days at work. But during those two days a lot of paperwork piled up, but hearing a great story makes getting behind at work well worth it. ENJOY.
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Horrible ending
The story never gets finished. If you like a complete story I wouldn’t recommend this book.
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something missing?
seemed like there should have been another chapter or two. ended without answering some of the main questions of the story.
there wasn't a resolution
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Not even an outstanding narrator can make up for trash
The writing is awkward and at times juvenile. The plot, such as it is, is contrived and full of holes, like it had been shot many times by the 38 magnum revolver mentioned in the book.
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Story4 out of 5 stars 165
Disillusioned newspaper reporter-turned-private detective Ray Dudgeon doesn't want to save the world; he just wants to do an honest job well. But when doing an honest job threatens society's most powerful and corrupt, Ray's odds of survival make for a sucker's bet.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Quintessentially Chicago
- By Eva Gannon on 09-21-09
By: Sean Chercover
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The Rabbit Factory
- By: Marshall Karp
- Narrated by: James Jenner, Tom Stechschulte
- Length: 14 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 70
Dean Lamaar is the architect of an entertainment empire and the creator of iconic characters like Rambunctious Rabbit and McGreedy the Moose. When his company falls on hard times, the only hope to get it back in the black is Familyland, an amusement park in Las Vegas. But after an actor playing Rambunctious Rabbit is found dead on the park grounds, everyone senses foul play. And after more characters wind up murdered, it becomes obvious that someone has it in for Lamaar.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Marshall Karp Writes… Good :-)
- By Ted on 07-13-15
By: Marshall Karp
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Florida Roadkill
- By: Tim Dorsey
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 10 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,041
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 920
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Story4 out of 5 stars 928
Sunshine State trivia buff Serge A. Storms loves eliminating jerks and pests. His drug-addled partner Coleman loves cartoons. Hot stripper Sharon Rhodes loves cocaine, especially when purchased with rich dead men's money. On the other hand, there's Sean and David, who love fishing and are kind to animals - and who are about to cross paths with a suitcase filled with $5 million in stolen insurance money. Serge wants the suitcase. Sharon wants the suitcase. Coleman wants more drugs... and the suitcase.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Its a Mad Mad Mad Florida!
- By Mark on 09-26-11
By: Tim Dorsey
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Night Passage
- By: Robert B. Parker
- Narrated by: Richard Masur
- Length: 5 hrs and 57 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 635
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 499
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 503
After a busted marriage kicks his drinking problem into overdrive and the LAPD unceremoniously dumps him, 35-year-old Jesse Stone's future looks bleak. So he's shocked when a small Massachusetts town called Paradise recruits him as police chief. He can't help wondering if this job is a genuine chance to start over, the kind of offer he can't refuse. Once on board, Jesse doesn't have to look for trouble in Paradise: It comes to him. For what is on the surface a quiet New England community quickly proves to be a crucible of political and moral corruption.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good book, bad narration
- By Phred on 07-09-12
By: Robert B. Parker
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The Long and Faraway Gone
- A Novel
- By: Lou Berney
- Narrated by: Brian Hutchison, Amy McFadden
- Length: 12 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 164
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Story4 out of 5 stars 142
In the summer of 1986, two tragedies rocked Oklahoma City. Six movie-theater employees were killed in an armed robbery while one inexplicably survived. Then, a teenage girl vanished from the annual state fair. Neither crime was ever solved. Twenty-five years later, the reverberations of those unsolved cases quietly echo through survivors’ lives. A private investigator in Vegas, Wyatt’s latest inquiry takes him back to a past he’s tried to escape - and drags him deeper into the harrowing mystery of the movie house robbery that left six of his friends dead.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Heartbreaking and extremely entertaining
- By Victor @ theAudiobookBlog dot com on 01-05-21
By: Lou Berney
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Bluff
- By: Michael Kardos
- Narrated by: Julia Whelan
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 3,059
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,825
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,826
At 27, magician Natalie Webb is already a has-been. Shunned by the magic world after a disastrous liaison with an older magician, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. In a desperate ploy to make extra cash, she follows up on an old offer to write a feature magazine article - on the art of cheating at cards. In the process, Natalie is dazzled by a poker cheat's sleight of hand and soon finds herself facing a proposition - to help pull off a $1.5 million magic trick that, if done successfully, no one will ever even suspect happened.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I can't say enough about this book!
- By shelley on 04-05-18
By: Michael Kardos
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Weekend Warriors
- Sisterhood, Book 1
- By: Fern Michaels
- Narrated by: Laural Merlington
- Length: 6 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 969
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 800
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 798
On the surface, these seven women are as different as can be - but each has had her share of bad luck, from cheating husbands to sexist colleagues to a legal system that often doesn't do its job. Now, drawn together by tragedy, they're forging a bond that will help them right the wrongs committed against them and discover an inner strength they didn't know they had. The Sisterhood is learning that when bad things happen, you can roll over and play dead...or you can get up fighting...
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3 out of 5 stars
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Weekend Warriors
- By Ms Mare on 04-04-09
By: Fern Michaels
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Setup on Front Street
- Key West Nocturnes Series, Book 1
- By: Mike Dennis
- Narrated by: Mike Dennis
- Length: 4 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 35
Key West, 1991. Don Roy Doyle is back in town. Tough and quick-witted, he's fresh out of prison, where he served three years for a diamond swindle. Now he's back to collect his share of the proceeds, about $200,000, but the money has vanished. A local family dynasty which has controlled the island's politics for generations, a cop with a grudge, the FBI, and the Russian mob all have a stake in the action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Believable characters and unexpected twists.
- By Yleana on 09-15-13
By: Mike Dennis
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Rogue Island
- By: Bruce DeSilva
- Narrated by: Jeff Woodman, Bruce DeSilva - introduction
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,168
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 937
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Story4 out of 5 stars 930
Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Classic Whodunnit
- By Michael Jacobi on 06-03-11
By: Bruce DeSilva
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The Last Refuge
- By: Chris Knopf
- Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 974
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 834
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 830
Sam Acquillo is at the end of the line: he's a middle-aged corporate dropout living in a ramshackle cottage in Southampton's North Sea. But then the old lady next door ends up floating dead in her bathtub, and it seems that Sam is the only one who wonders why.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A hero who doesn't work and play well with others.
- By Cholmondeley on 04-04-13
By: Chris Knopf
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The Inside Ring
- A Novel
- By: Michael Lawson
- Narrated by: Scott Brick
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 748
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 501
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 493
From a bluff overlooking Georgia's untamed Chattooga River, an assassin fires three shots. The President of the United States is wounded; his best friend and a Secret Service agent are killed. Two days later, a man in Landover, Maryland, commits suicide, and in the man's home is overwhelming evidence that he was responsible for the assassination attempt.
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3 out of 5 stars
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The Foul Language Ring
- By Karen on 12-11-07
By: Michael Lawson
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Spoonbenders
- A Novel
- By: Daryl Gregory
- Narrated by: Ari Fliakos
- Length: 14 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,947
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 4,554
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 4,539
Teddy Telemachus is a charming con man with a gift for sleight of hand and some shady underground associates. In need of cash, he tricks his way into a classified government study about telekinesis and its possible role in intelligence gathering. There he meets Maureen McKinnon, and it's not just her piercing blue eyes that leave Teddy forever charmed but her mind - Maureen is a genuine psychic of immense and mysterious power.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Slow start, but patience is your friend here.
- By Heather on 08-22-17
By: Daryl Gregory
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The Iceman
- The True Story of a Cold-Blooded Killer
- By: Anthony Bruno
- Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot
- Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,222
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,988
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,966
At home, Richard Kuklinski was a dedicated suburban family man; on the street, he was the Iceman, a professional hit man and lethal scam artist, a man so heartless he kept one of his victims frozen for over two years to disguise the time of death. His personal body count was over 100, but the police couldn’t touch him. Then undercover agent Dominick Polifrone posed as a mobster and began a deadly game of cat and mouse. The Iceman chronicles Kuklinski’s grisly career and exposes his murderous double life.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Started out promising, but...
- By M. Murphy on 07-10-13
By: Anthony Bruno
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Black Fridays
- By: Michael Sears
- Narrated by: Erik Bergmann
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 333
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4 out of 5 stars 297
Sometimes a man can be redeemed. But not in the way he expects. Jason Stafford is a former Wall Street hotshot who made some bad moves, paid the price with two years in prison, and is now trying to put his life back together. He’s unemployable, until an investment firm asks him to look into possible problems left by a junior trader who died recently in an accident. What he discovers is big - there are problems, all right, the kind that get you killed. But it’s not his only concern. Stafford has another quest as well: to reclaim his five-year-old son, "the Kid", from his unstable ex-wife, and then learn just what it means to make a life with him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it. I loved the end!
- By John on 05-16-14
By: Michael Sears
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The Bubble Gum Thief
- Dagny Gray Thriller
- By: Jeff Miller
- Narrated by: Laura Dysarczyk
- Length: 13 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 199
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 177
It is barely a crime - just the theft of a single pack of gum. But each crime that follows is bigger, and each accompanying note promises the next crime will be even worse. When FBI Special Agent Dagny Gray is asked to investigate the gum thief’s fifth crime, a bank robbery, it seems like an intriguing case. However there is nothing funny about the double murder that follows. Special Agent Gray becomes part of an unlikely trio of three investigators competing to stop the escalation of crimes, often with unconventional tactics.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Clever
- By Ted on 12-01-20
By: Jeff Miller
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The Black Echo: Harry Bosch Series, Book 1
- By: Michael Connelly
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 13 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17,606
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 14,215
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14,188
For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.