| Latest Fiction "Gambling on Magic"
The Deluxe edition of Christopher G. Moore’s latest novel titled Gambling on Magic was released by Heaven Lake Press on 27th July 2005. The trade paperback edition is also available through this website. Gambling on Magic shifts between the Feng Shui Flower shop in Bangkok, a penthouse and bookie operation in Vancouver, sports betting in Las Vegas and a revolution in Havana. When Hollywood super star and action hero, Errol Flynn, died in 1959 at the age of 50 in a Vancouver penthouse with a bottle of booze and a 16-year-old bimbo by his side, most people, including the coroner, were quick to call it a heart attack brought on by the excesses that made Flynn notorious. Nearly a half-century later, and halfway around the world in Bangkok, new evidence has just surfaced which proves the actor was murdered by government operatives unhappy with Flynn's ties with Fidel Castro, at a time when US-Cuban relations were heading into the toilet. The discovery is about to put everything on the line for ex-patriot American gambling king and TV personality, Joey Balfour, now the owner of a mysterious and exotic flower shop in downtown Bangkok. For Balfour, untangling himself from the mess will be the greatest gamble of his life, pitting his wits against a thief who ripped off a Vegas casino, a harlot out for revenge, right wing religious zealots with government entanglements out to destroy his life, a seedy Vegas security chief out for revenge, and a computer nerd who has accidentally uncovered the FBI memo ordering Errol Flynn's hit. Set in the steamy, erotic underworld of Bangkok, Gambling with Magic, is at once a thinking man's and woman's thriller and a brilliant literary look at life as the ultimate gamble. The rogue's gallery of whacky, wonderful, and original characters will stick with you long after you finish this page turner. |
