Positively Fifth Street. Murderers, Cheetahs, And Binion's World Series Of Poker

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2003
Edition: First Edition

Description: 422 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Rough sex, black magic, murder, and the science--and eros--of gambling meet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas James McManus was sent to Las Vegas by "Harper"s to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming progress of women in the $23 million event, and the murder of Ted Binion, the tournaments prodigal host, purportedly done in by a stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outre 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 attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account of the tournament itself--the players, the hand-to-hand combat, and his own unlikely progress in it. Written in the tradition of "The Gambler "and "The Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street" is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of Americas card game, and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one mans effort to understand what Edward O. Wilson has called "Pleistocene exigencies"--the eros and logistics of our primary competitive instincts. A "New York Times" Notable BookA "San Francisco Chronicle" Best Book "Very entertaining and very accurate."--David Sklansky, author of "Theory of Poker"

ISBN: 9780374236489