Product Description

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. "Bringing Down the House" 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, banning them and using private detectives to share information on suspected and known counters. "Bringing Down the House" 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2013 in Books
• Published on: 2004-05-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 306 pages

Sunday Express
‘An extraordinary story… a book that will surely become a classic of its genre’

Michael Capuzzo
‘In this rollicking truth-is-stranger-than-fiction tale, Robin Hood meets the Rat Pack... Odds are you'll love it.’

Literary Review, June, 2003
Bringing Down the House has a sensational story to tell'

Customer Reviews

Superb
This book is a true roller coaster ride through the life of Kevin Lewis. It is fast paced and really does read like a movie (whcich it obviously is now). I found it incredibly difficult to stop reading this book right from the word go and if I hadn't needed to go to work, I wouldn't have stopped.

If you are loking for a book that will keep you entertained and engaged but with a factual twist, this is the book for you. Almost makes you want to hop on the next flight to Vegas, but there is a warning held in this book as well and in a way that makes it even better still.

A true classic.

Excellent book
I could recommend this book to anyone who is interested in Vegas and the world of gambling in particular. The book reads very well and it's impossible to put it down, it builds up to a nice climax and wants you to know more about the subject. This book made me a Ben Mezrich fan.

Quick read and a good double buy
At the time I only bought Bringing Down The House, that was a mistake, I should have got Breaking Vegas at the same time. I will go back and give the book another read (you can speed-read very quickly thanks to Mezrich's writing) since I watched the faction film "21" at the cinema last month. Anyone wanting the true story, this is the closest you'll get.