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21: Bringing Down The House
Ben Mezrich
Free Press
February 2008
On Sale: January 29, 2008
288 pages
ISBN: 1416564195
EAN: 9781416564195
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The long-running New York Times bestseller that has
become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House
is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of
cons -- supersmart geeks. Gambling pervaded the M.I.T.
campus, and genius kids with money and glittering futures
were just as likely to be found in a Paradise Island casino
as in the school library. A highly elite group of mathletes
was recruited to join The Club, a small, secret blackjack
organization dedicated to counting cards and beating the
major casinos across the nation at their own game. As a
successful ring of card savants, backed by a mysterious
ringleader and shadowy investors, they infiltrated Vegas and
won millions. The Boston Herald acclaimed it as
"a suspenseful tale that portrays the players as Davids
going up against Goliaths." And Bill Simmons of ESPN
magazine exclaimed, "This book made me want to gamble!
Vegas! Vegas!" Filled with tense action, high stakes, and
incredibly close calls, Bringing Down the House is a
nail-biting chronicle of a real-life Ocean's Eleven.
It's one story that Vegas does not want you to read.
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