Last Call: A Novel

Description

One-time professional gambler Scott Crane hasn't returned to Las Vegas, or held a hand of cards, in ten years. But troubling nightmares about a strange poker game he once attended on a houseboat on Lake Mead - a contest he believed he walked away from a big winner - are drawing him back to the magical city. Because the mythic game did not end that night in 1969. And the price of his winnings was hjis soul. And now a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a car.

Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels, including Declare, Last Call, Hide Me Among the Graves, and On Stranger Tides, the inspiration for the blockbuster film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, starring Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz. Powers lives in San Bernardino, California.

"Dazzling . . . a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly." -- Dean Koontz "There's never been a novel quite like DECLARE...one of the protean Powers's most absorbing and rewarding creations." -- Kirkus Starred Review "Highly ingenious . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game." -- San Francisco Chronicle "DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Call, and possibly his best to date." -- Locus Magazine "Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare's occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined." -- William Gibson