- Compulsive gamblers, Drugs, Epileptics, Experimental Medicine
Working underground poker clubs, epileptic gambler David Caine suffers his worst seizure after a costly miscalculation and agrees to test an experimental medication, but when he begins to experience bizarre visions, he embarks on a dangerous quest for survival alongside a rogue woman CIA assassin.
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Contemporary, grave, earnest and unpretentious.
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Adam Fawer
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 464
- Publisher
- Jian duan chu ban, William Morrow, Cheng bang wen hua shi ye gu fen you xian gong si
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780060736774
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