Gambling on Magic
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Gambling on Magic is set in Bangkok where life is more than good for Joey Balfour, ex-patriot gambling king, former TV personality, and the current owner of the mysterious and exotic Feng Shui Flower Shop in downtown Bangkok. Then ex-chief of security arrives in Bangkok to reopen an old unsolved Las Vegas casino theft. The thief has disappeared in Thailand and the conventional wisdom has it that Balfour holds the key to tracking him down. Caught in a web of deception and betrayal, Balfour discovers that other forces – more sinister and deadly – are slowly entangling him. The stakes are high, the odds are long, and for his greatest gamble, Balfour bets his own life on winning.
Set in the steamy, erotic underworld of Bangkok, Gambling On Magic is a thinking person’s thriller and a brilliant literary portrait of contemporary life inside Southeast Asia’s most famous city. The rogue's gallery of whacky, wonderful, and original characters will stick with you long after you finish this page-turner.
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Author's Research note: The world of professional sports gambling is an insider's world. Roxy Roxborough is one the legendary figures who created a highly influential American online college sports odds making website tha ignited online gambling. Roxy was way ahead of the pack. The infrastructure he developed is still used by professional gamblers. I interviewed Roxy over a period of months to explore his colorful life inside the sports gambling world. His stories, theories, and predictions assisted me greatly in creating the world of gamblers inside Gambling on Magic.
Christopher G Moore
Christopher G. Moore is a Canadian citizen and formerly taught law at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of nine novels featuring Vincent Calvino, and the winner of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, Germany's most prestigious award for crime fiction. He has lived in Bangkok since 1988. Both The Risk of Infidelity Index and Spirt House are published by Atlantic.
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