CD Edition
by Ben Mezrich
narrated by Johnny Heller
Genre: Non-Fiction
Age Group: Adult
Book Reference: DIR1982
ISBN: 978 1 4074 8157 9
Duration: 8h 45m (approx.) on 7 CDs
Publication Date: April 2008
Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises, banning them and using private detectives to share information on suspected and known counters.
Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex...
Sunday Express
“An extraordinary story... a book that will surely become a classic of its genre.”
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