21: Bringing Down the House

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<p>Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction.<i>Bringing Down the House</i>is one of the exceptions. 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.</p><p><i>Bringing Down the House</i>tells the true story of the most successful scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex.<i>Bringing Down the House</i>is as readable and as fascinating as<i>Liar's Poker</i>or<i>Barbarians At the Gate</i>, an insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world.</p>

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Ben Mezrich is the<i>New York Times</i>bestselling author of<i>The Accidental Billionaires</i>and<i>Bringing Down the House</i>in addition to many other books, both fiction and non-fiction. The major motion picture<i>21</i>, starring Kevin Spacey, was based on<i>Bringing Down the House</i>. The Oscar-winning film<i>The Social Network</i>was adapted from<i>The Accidental Billionaires.</i>Mezrich lives in Boston with his wife and son.

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