A Card for the Players [Hardcover]

Roland S. Jefferson (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 332 pages
• Publisher: New Bedford Press; 1st edition (1978)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B000XQOGD8
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

More About the Author

Roland S. Jefferson was born in Washington, DC but moved to Los Angeles at 6 years of age. He began writing during his college years at the University of Southern California where he received his BA degree. He then relocated to Washington DC where he matriculated at Howard University for graduate medical education. He then did a two year stint as a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force where he continued writing book and film reviews. After military service he penned his first novel, the highly acclaimed SCHOOL ON 103RD STREET now considered a classic canon in African American political fiction. Thirty five years and six novels later Roland S. Jefferson continues to write about edgy and provocative characters set in contemporary fiction with a touch of political reality, sexual inuendo and mystery.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Superb fast paced casino heist by counterfeit gaming chips, April 17, 1997

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This review is from: Card for the Players: A Novel (Hardcover)

Roland S. Jefferson has written a high concept novel about the Las Vegas Scene in the 1980's.The protagonist of this exciting tome is an alienated loser named Bernie who assembles a team of high stakes gamblers to help him pull off a heist of the Vegas casinos by counterfeiting the gaming chips and exchanging them for cash. Written is a style that reminds one of the late, great Chester Himes or even more like James Jones. With meticulous attention to detail, Jefferson is especially skillful with character descriptions and their interplay with one another. His development of Bernie's cold, detached, indifference, especially in his relationship with Janine, the only female member of his criminal enterprise is especially brutal in it's depiction. If you want to know how it ends, you'll have to read it. But I guarantee you won't be disappointed...especially since Las Vegas has, in the years since this novel was written, converted itself into a family playground. A Card For The Players is like going back home again, to the Las Vegas we remember. Not the corrupt infant of the Bugsy Siegel days, but the Las Vegas of Ocean's Eleven or 5 Against The House. I can't wait to see the movie