In 1949, Georges Leon has - through his powers in mathematics, gambling, crime and the occult - become the Fisher King; semi-godlike lord of Las Vegas. But now he needs to extend his power, and he means to do so by taking over the body of his five-year-old son, Scott.
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Las Vegas 1990. Scott Crane has lost his family, his job and, he suspects, his reason for living. All he has left are the escape of heavy drinking and the dangerous thrill of high stakes poker. But things are about to get worse. Much worse. Soon he's haunted by his dead wife, on the run from malicious manifestations and plagued by vague feelings that he sold his soul when he was a little child. The Fisher King – a godlike lord of the wasteland – is at work and he wants what's owed. He wants the
LAST CALL
Chaos mathematics, tarot, gambling for mortal stakes, Arthurian legend, Egyptian mythology, bloody murder and a plot that runs on overdrive till the last call is answered. A dazzling, terrifying encounter with the dark imagination of Tim Powers . . .
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