Vegas Vice: The Gamble of Wealth and Despair - Couverture souple

Frezza, Eldo E

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ISBN 13 : 9798895315736

Editeur : Writers Branding LLC, 2026

Synopsis

Synopsis: Las Vegas doesn't break people in one night-it teaches them how to break themselves.

Sophie and Jake arrive thinking they can stay in control. They can't. The Strip doesn't negotiate. It rewrites everyone who stays long enough to believe the illusion.

Sophie is the first to see it: Vegas is not changing their luck-it is changing them. Jake tries to stay detached, to observe without being absorbed, but the city has no use for distance. In Vegas, even silence becomes part of the game.

Together, they move through a world of shifting alliances, risky choices, and emotional traps disguised as opportunity. Their connection becomes their only anchor-but in a city built on illusion, even anchors can drag you under.

Around them, others unravel.

Kim and Joy chase reinvention and connection, only to find distortion where clarity should be. Desire becomes confusion. Intimacy becomes performance.

And Nancy-already unstable on arrival-collapses slowly, quietly, brutally. Alcohol doesn't just blur her life. It replaces it, and it destroys.

As the nights collapse into each other, the real gamble is no longer money. It is identity. Trust. Control. Every decision costs more than expected. Every win feels staged. Every loss feels personal.

By dawn, nothing is resolved-only exposed.

Sophie and Jake leave the Strip changed in ways they cannot undo. Everyone else walks away carrying fragments of a night that never really ended.

Las Vegas remains the same: beautiful, indifferent, and endlessly consuming.

It does not remember who survived.

Only who played long enough to be rewritten.

In Vegas, you don't lose everything in a night.

You lose it slowly-until you no longer notice it's gone.

Autobiography: Eldo E. Frezza is a surgeon, storyteller, and award-winning author whose work spans crime, magical realism, and human drama. He is the creator of the Twisted Needle crime series, which explores the dark intricacies of human behavior, morality, and justice within high-stakes medical and criminal worlds.

In Drawn on Fire, he confronts the devastating realities of alcohol addiction and its ripple effects on individuals and families. The Death of Venice examines the neglect of humanity amid beauty, reflecting on the erosion of care in one of the world's most iconic cities. Looking for Hemingway takes readers on a journey of magical realism in search of meaning, identity, and the elusive essence of life itself.

In Vegas Vice: The Gamble of Wealth and Despair, Frezza turns his focus to Las Vegas, peeling back layers of desire, corruption, survival, and illusion to reveal the human cost of chasing fortune in a city built on risk and spectacle.

Across all his works, Frezza blends clinical precision with emotional depth, merging the perspective of a physician with the instincts of a storyteller. His writing invites readers into spaces where vulnerability and resilience collide, illuminating both the darkness and the enduring fragments of hope that define the human experience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Writers Branding LLC
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798895315736
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 276
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible