ROBIN HOOD MEETS THE RAT PACK when the best and the brightest of M.I.T.'s math students and engineers take up blackjack under the gutdance of an eccentric mastermind. Their small blackjack club develops from an experiment in counting cards on M.I.T.'s campus into a ring of card savants with a system for playing large and winning big. In ess than two years they take some of the world's most sophisti-cated casinos for more than three million dollars. But their success also brings with it the formidable ire of casino owners and launches them into the seedy underworld of corporate Vegas with its private investiga-tors and other via lent heavies.
Filled with tense action, high stakes, and incredibly close calls,Bringing Down the House is a nail-biting read that chronicles a real-life Ocean's Eleven. It's one story that Vegas does notwant you to read.

作者简介：
Ben Mezrich has published nine books, including the New York Times bestseller Bringing Down the House (set to be a Sony picture in March 2008 starring Kevin Spacey). He is a columnist for Stuff magazine and Boston Common, and a contributor for Flush magazine (U.K.). He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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TWO Boston, Present Day
THREE Boston, June 1994
FOUR Atlantic City, June 1994
FIVE Boston, September 1994
SIX Boston, October 1994
SEVEN Boston, October 1994
EIGHT Las Vegas, Present Day
NINE Thirty Thousand Feet, November 1994
TEN Las Vegas, November 1994
ELEVEN Weston, MA, Thanksgiving 1994
TWELVE The Double Life, 1994-95
THIRTEEN Chicago, May 1995
FOURTEEN Boston, June 1995
FIFTEEN Foxwoods Casino, Present Day
SIXTEEN July 1995 to October 1995
SEVENTEEN Boston, Halloween 1995
EIGHTEEN Boston, November 1995
NINETEEN Las Vegas, Present Day
TWENTY Las Vegas, Fall 1997
TWENTY-ONE Boston, Fall 1997
TWENTY-TWO Las Vegas, Present Day
TWENTY-THREE Boston, Valentine's Day 1998
TWENTY-FOUR Las Vegas, President's Day 1998
TWENTY-FIVE The Bayou: Shreveport, LA, 1998
TWENTY-SIX Boston, Spring 1998
TWENTY-SEVEN Boston, Spring 1998
TWENTY-EIGHT Boston, Spring 1998
TWENTY-NINE Boston, Spring 1998
THIRTY Las Vegas, Memorial Day 1998
THIRTY-ONE Boston, June 1998
THIRTY-TWO Las Vegas, Hard Rock, Present Day
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