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Whale Hunt In the Desert (Second Edition)

Whale Hunt in the Desert divulges the unbridled lengths to which casinos go to bag the world’s biggest gamblers—the whales. This definitive exposé reveals the shrouded world of ultra-high rollers and the Faustian pacts they forge with their hosts, the casino representatives whose job it is to part them from their fortunes. Private jets, penthouses, personal chefs, show-up money, rebates on losses, and the most beautiful women on Earth—nothing is too excessive. Whale Hunt in the Desert is the only book ever to examine the lifestyles and motivations of this rarest of breeds, as well as the highly guarded inner workings of the most money-oriented culture known to man.

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About The Author(s)

Deke Castleman Deke Castleman has been the senior editor at Huntington Press since 1992. He's edited more than 150 issues of the monthly Las Vegas Advisor, as well as all but two of Huntington Press's books. He's also written numerous travel guides to Nevada and Las Vegas, including Nevada Handbook (now in its seventh edition), Compass Las Vegas (eighth edition), and Compass Nevada (first edition). He's also the author of two unpublished novels and one unpublished medical text on mucus, called Phlegmboyance--Where Does It All Cub Frub? In his spare time, he collects striped shirts.