Last Call

Twenty Years Ago Scott Crane Abandoned His Career As A Professional Poker Player And Went Into Hiding, After A Weird High-stakes Game Played With Tarot Cards. But Now The Cards - And The Supernatural Powers Behind Them - Have Found Him Again. Crane's Father Killed Gangster Bugsy Siegel In 1948 To Become The Fisher King, And To Keep That Power He Is Determined To Kill His Son. Now Scott Crane Must Cross The Mojave Desert To His Father's Perilous Chapel In Las Vegas, And Take Up The Cards Again For One Last Poker Duel. And The Stakes Are The Highest He's Ever Played For ... His Soul. Winner Of The World Fantasy Award For Best Novel, 1993 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 his soul. And now a pot far more strange and perilous than he ever could imagine depends on the turning of a card. The WORLD FANTASY AWARD-winning novel from the author of THE ANUBIS GATES and DECLARE.