Last Call

Product Description Enchantingly dark and compellingly real, the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Last Call, set in the gritty, dazzling underworld known as Las Vegas, is a masterpiece of magic realism from critically acclaimed author Tim Powers. Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player twenty years ago and 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 are drawing him back to the magical city. For the mythic game he believed he won did not end that night in 1969 -- and the price of his winnings was his soul. Now, a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card. Review ''A dizzying, stimulating magnum opus.'' --USA Today ''Brilliant! Compelling and satisfying! Tim Powers is one of our best writers, and Last Call is his best book yet.'' --Raymond E. Feist ''Distinctive and commanding. . . . a strikingly inventive novel.'' --Publishers Weekly''Riveting. . . lyrical and brutal. . . a thrilling tale of gambling, fate and fantastic adventure.'' --Los Angeles Daily News ''Weird. . . grippingly written. . . a nightmarish novel, brilliantly researched and made.'' --San Jose Mercury News ''A terrific read. . . a believable tapestry of greed and passion.'' --Denver Rocky Mountain News''A novel of the supernatural and occult that is hard boiled, seamy, and suspenseful as the best film noir.'' --Tom Robbins, New York Times bestselling author ''Rich, top-flight mythic fantasy based on Jungian archetypes, Tarot symbolism, T. S. Eliot's Waste Land, and the Parsifal legend. . . Knockout poker sequences give the symbolism real sizzle, while the genre is enlivened throughout with great lines from Eliot.'' --Kirkus Reviews About the Author TIM POWERS is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, and Three Days to Never. He has received the Locus, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.