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Rough sex, black magic, and the science--and eros--of gambling.
Meet in the ultimate book about NEVADA.
James McManus was sent to NEVADA by Harper’s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of ladies in the $23-million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournament’s prodigal host, purportedly done in by the stripper and her boyfriend with a method so outré it took a Manhattan pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive young couple was another story altogether.
McManus risks his entire Harper’s advance in a long-shot try to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising make of poker that determines the earth champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself--the players, the hand-to-hand, and his own unlikely progress in it.
Written in the tradition of The Gambler and The Biggest Game around, Positively Fifth Street is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America’s card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of 1 man’s effort to comprehend what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"--the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts.
