Positively Fifth Street: Murderers, Cheetahs, and Binion's World Series of Poker

by James McManus, published by Farrar,Straus, Giroux, 2003.

A breath-taking book. The writer, started as a journalist following a murder case and the world series of poker event, ended anticipating in the world most money prized competition and came in 5th, wrote from inside out the making of the casino life in Las Vegas, the world gambling capital. Love, money, and lust.