Author, John Curry, pulled no punches with a colorful narrative filled with expletives and street jargon. As for me, his style of writing worked; it was fascinating reading. Given a charge of adrenaline, the scenes rushed forward at break-neck speed. From beginning to end, the well-written topsy-turvy action never slowed nor failed to amuse.

Down on his luck, Tim, staggered through a decadent life with a bottle of booze in one hand, illegal narcotics in the other. Fast food carried him through from one day to the next. A career choice had been made. He left the real estate market behind to enter the world of professional gambling. In his case - professional losing.

Initially, that fortuitous move proved to be disastrous. In record time, almost every penny to his name had been lost in high stakes poker. As far as he was concerned, it didn't really matter; he had his drugs, booze and cigarettes to ease his crumbling world. This was not the American dream he had envisioned.

He bounced between New York City and Atlantic City. That's where the action took him. Try as he might, his life was on a continual downward spiral. Living one day to the next, this was the unfortunate life that he found himself sucked into. There was no ending, just another bottle of whiskey, one more line of nose candy. He made his bed...

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