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    Dead Even: Poker Boy, #3
    Dead Even: Poker Boy, #3
    Dead Even: Poker Boy, #3
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    Dead Even: Poker Boy, #3

    By Dean Wesley Smith

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    Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people who normally don’t need help.

    Poker Boy met Bob on Christmas Eve and proceeded to take his money at the table because Bob played horrid poker and did so while being a real jerk.

    But Bob needed that money for a very special and personal reason. A reason Poker Boy found worthwhile.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWMG Publishing
    Release dateSep 22, 2016
    ISBN9781536511680
    Dead Even: Poker Boy, #3
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    Dean Wesley Smith

    Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA Today bestselling writer Dean Wesley Smith published far more than a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. At the moment he produces novels in several major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the Old West, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, a superhero series starring Poker Boy, and a mystery series featuring the retired detectives of the Cold Poker Gang. His monthly magazine, Smith’s Monthly, which consists of only his own fiction, premiered in October 2013 and offers readers more than 70,000 words per issue, including a new and original novel every month. During his career, Dean also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, he wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies. He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of almost a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown. Dean also worked as a fiction editor off and on, starting at Pulphouse Publishing, then at VB Tech Journal, then Pocket Books, and now at WMG Publishing, where he and Kristine Kathryn Rusch serve as series editors for the acclaimed Fiction River anthology series. For more information about Dean’s books and ongoing projects, please visit his website at www.deanwesleysmith.com and sign up for his newsletter.

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      Book preview

      Dead Even - Dean Wesley Smith

      Superheroes in the gambling universe sometimes find themselves helping people who normally don’t need help.

      Poker Boy met Bob on Christmas Eve and proceeded to take his money at the table because Bob played horrid poker and did so while being a real jerk.

      But Bob needed that money for a very special and personal reason. A reason Poker Boy found worthwhile.

      DEAD EVEN

      BOB SHOWED UP in the poker room at Spirit Winds Casino on Christmas Eve. Bob, like his name, was a very short man. I guessed he came up to my shoulder at best, even with heels on his boots. It’s always interesting to me how names fit people. Bob fit Bob perfectly.

      His black hair was short, the nails on his fingers were trimmed short, and even his nose was short. He wore a golf shirt that seemed a size too small, and brown slacks that covered brown dress shoes. He did not have the appearance of having money, but over the years I have come to not trust appearances very much, since I look like a slob most of the time, yet I have money and am a super hero.

      In looks, I am, for lack of a

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