 A Liberty Ship sails from Antwerp to New York in 1945, with a full complement of returning soldiers. The biggest winner-take-all poker game of World War II ensues with $500,000 at stake - if anyone can stay alive to collect it. "Animal" Podberski, Michelangelo Santini, Augie Epstein, Captain Hubbard IV, and Charlie Buck, blessed from birth by Lady Luck play with skill, violence, peculiar luck, cross and double cross, not just for the money, but for their lives. A novel of irresistible suspense and total entertainment, surely one of the most exciting novels ever fashioned out of a true event. |
