21: BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying asfiction. "Bringing Down the House" is one of the exceptions. Cheating incasinos is illegal; and card-counting - making a record of what cards haveso far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of whatcards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike thepractice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of theirpremises. "Bringing Down the House" tells the true story of the mostsuccessful scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians andphysicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, beingdrawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex."Bringing Down the House" is as readable and as fascinating as "Liar'sPoker" or "Barbarians At the Gate", an insight into a closed, excessiveand utterly corrupt world.