21: Bringing Down the House: How Six Students Took Vegas for Millions

Ben Mezrich

Feb 2012 · Random House

About this ebook

Real-life all too rarely offers stories that are quite as satisfying as fiction. Bringing Down the House is one of the exceptions. Cheating in casinos is illegal; card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. But casinos understandably dislike the practice and make every effort to keep card-counters out of their premises.

Bringing Down the House tells the true story of the most successful scam ever, in which teams of brilliant young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas, being drawn in the process into the high-life of drugs, high-spending and sex. Bringing Down the House is as readable and as fascinating as Liar's Poker or Barbarians At the Gate, an insight into a closed, excessive and utterly corrupt world.

Ratings and reviews

This book is isn't quite as fun or sexy as the movie 21, but that's just because Hollywood had to make it as dramatic and sexy as possible for a movie. The truth still makes for a very interesting, fun tale and this book is definitely worth a read if you're at all interested in cards, gritty personalities or a little light mathematics.

Super book and i dont enjoy reading too much

RDX AJIMUL KING

About the author

Ben Mezrich is the New York Times bestselling author of The Accidental Billionaires and Bringing Down the House in addition to many other books, both fiction and non-fiction. The major motion picture 21, starring Kevin Spacey, was based on Bringing Down the House. The Oscar-winning film The Social Network was adapted from The Accidental Billionaires. Mezrich lives in Boston with his wife and son.