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Bringing Down The House

Ben Mezrich

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English
Arrow
01 July 2004
A gripping real-life financial action thriller, telling the story of a brilliant team of MIT students who won millions of dollars in Las Vegas. Ocean's Eleven, but for real.

Adapted into the box office hit heist drama film 21, starring Kevin Spacey and Kate Bosworth.

Real life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions- a real-life action thriller oozing with money, sex and some extremely dodgy dealing...

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. Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful financial scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos and blackjack tables of Las Vegas, in the process getting drawn into the high life of drugs, sex and spending big.

Bringing Down the House is as readable and as fascinating as Liar's Poker or Barbarians At the Gate, an insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world of gambling in Las Vegas.
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Imprint:   Arrow
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 130mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   229g
ISBN:   9780099468233
ISBN 10:   0099468239
Pages:   306
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Ben Mezrich is the author of four thrillers, published in the US and in a number of other countries.

Reviews for Bringing Down The House

Rocky Mountain News (Denver) A lively tale that could pass for thriller fiction....Mezrich's skilled yet easy writing draws sweat to the reader's brow.


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