Nevada - Softcover
The passage of Nevada's gambling referendum in 1931 occasions the rise of Meade Slaughter from a wheel of fortune operator at a traveling carnival to become the owner of five casino-hotels
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Clint McCullough has enjoyed successful careers as an advertising and public relations agency owner in the San Francisco Bay Area, business consultant, general building contractor, white-water rafting guide and a "generally footloose existence." After gambling in Reno and Las Vegas for years, he wrote NEVADA with the goal of writing a 20th century historical novel about gaming and getting back some of the money he lost. McCullough has recently published KENTUCKY DREAMING, a first edition historical novel about the Thoroughbred breeding and racing industry and the Kentucky Derby.
From Publishers Weekly:
In this first novel, McCullough recreates the saga of gambling in Nevada from its legalization in 1931. Hero Meade Slaughter sets up his own roulette wheel and crap tables in Reno. A loner who burns with ambition, Slaughter foresees the establishment of casinos on the Las Vegas strip and then the even greater potential of hotel complexes on Lake Tahoe. Though he is an honest man, Slaughter must pay off mobster Buggsy Siegel (one of several real characters) for a betting wire; he also borrows millions from Jimmy Hoffa. The narrative is pegged to a vendetta between Slaughter and the corrupt Guilianos, who sell "protection." Trying to intimidate Slaughter, Carlo Guiliano mistakingly kills Slaughter's fiancee. When Slaughter takes his revenge, he earns the undying enmity of Carlo's son. McCullough provides a good history of the protean growth of the gambling enterprise, but the dialogue and predictable plot are less rewarding. 20,000 ad/promo.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherSt Martins Pr
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0312902603
- ISBN 13 9780312902605
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages641
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