Book description
The Lucky Charm. The Sure Thing. The Long Shot. The Jinx.
Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead she winds up
waiting tables in a low-rent diner and living in a fleapit motel.
Then she meets Dink, the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink
introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes
gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, and strippers, wise-guys and
hardened cons.
New to the game but with big ambitions, Beth must get smart to get
ahead. The real money is off-shore, where gambling regulations don't
count. But nor do other rules. In the free-wheeling caribbean Beth
discovers that the difference between winning big and losing
everything comes down to how sharp you play.
Beth Raymer lives in New York City.
Lay the Favourite
is her first book.
