DICE ANGEL

The story of Jimmy Delaney, a Las Vegas bar owner on yet another bad roll. His ex-wife is cranky. A homeless guy keeps scaring the hell out of him. Burglars clean out all the coins from the video poker machines at his bar and his accountant is missing, along with the bar's money. He can't get a loan because the IRS has a lien on his place and a revenue agent with a personal grudge is seizing his bar on Friday unless he can come up with 50 grand in back taxes. Then a mysterious woman enters Jimmy's life: The Dice Angel, a planet-charting, colon-cleansing floozy. Can he save his bar with a supernaturally hot hand at the craps table, or does Lady Luck chew up and spit out another Vegas loser? 222 Pgs. 2001