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LAST CALL - Tim Powers
LAST CALL
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9781569565537 (1569565538)
Publisher: William Morrow and Company Inc [1992], New York
Pages no: 61
Edition language: English
Series: Fault Lines (#1)
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bookaneer
bookaneer rated it
3.0 Playing a forced hand
Last Call by Tim Powers Book Reaction (not a full review) Last Call is a weird little alternate history that mixes poker with tarot. My ability to enjoy this book was probably impeded by the fact that the last time I played poker was in the fifth grade (we played for mechanical pencils), and ba...
Dantastic Book Reviews
Dantastic Book Reviews rated it
4.0
Former professional poker player Scott Crane's life is falling apart, having just lost his wife and been on a beer binge, when aspects of his past have come back to haunt him. Specifically, a bizarre card game twenty years before where he may have lost his soul. But what do his foster father and f...
Tesseract Thoughts
Tesseract Thoughts rated it
5.0
One of my favorite Powers books. Great story set in Las Vegas with lots of real-world-mysticism and some history of the city to boot. Based on legends of a Fisher King, and uses the chaos and luck surrounding vegas in new and unusual ways. (When the smoke at a poker table pools towards the middle an...
wealhtheow
wealhtheow rated it
Twenty years ago, the main character lost his soul in a game of cards. To prevent his foster sister from suffering as well, he enters into a battle for godlike power—literally. He and many others race across the country trying to become the new embodiment of the legendary personas that guide humanit...
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