Sin City

by Harold Robbins

Book Overview

From the "New York Times" bestselling author of "The Predators" For more than five decades, bestselling author Harold Robbins has thrilled millions of readers with tales heavy in action, ruthless... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765340518
• ISBN13: 9780765340511
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Forge
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Very entertaining-Vegas, sex, travel, deception-the works!

Took this book on a cruise and it was a perfect quick and easy read. This book kept me interested from beginning to end and was very believable and certainly entertaining. You feel like the characters are alive and you are following them through all their adventures. Being a big fan of Vegas, this book takes you back to it's beginning, with all the faults and dangers that the Commission works so hard to eliminate today. "Sin City" is just that; then and still today - I would recommend this book to anyone that gambles or goes to Vegas and likes a story that has some teeth to it, spicy sex, and provides insight into the cheating side of gambling too. You won't be disappointed!

Gangsters. Gambling. Las Vegas. Violence. I loved it!

The story is familiar. We root for the street-smart hero, who we learn early on is the illegitimate son of Howard Hughes. The kid grows up tough with the grit and guts to confront power brokers and move up the ladder of high living. Explicit bedroom scenes pepper the fast-moving narrative. And the bad things our hero does are only for well-deserved revenge. The true stories that legends are made of, such as Bugsy Siegel and the Flamingo, give the tale a ring of authenticity. When there's lots money around, there's also lots of cheating, and I was fascinated by the many scams and cons from slot machines to high-stakes Baccarat. The constant tension drove the plot, cumulating in a card game in the finale that had me holding my breath.The book's 383 pages are easy reading and I gulped it down in two sittings. I found it a pleasure to just relax and follow the story. No deep thinking is required. And I didn't learn anything new. It was just pure pleasure. Which is what reading for entertainment is all about.

best of the posthumous career

Twenty-two years old Las Vegas waitress Betty Riordan receives her fifteen minutes of "fame" when an ancient Howard Hughes has sex with her. Betty gives birth to a boy she names Howard Hughes, Jr. Three months after that Betty with her infant in tow tries to visit the father of her child. However, the Hughes entourage simply hands her cash to leave town with the renamed baby, Zack Riordan.Zack returns to Vegas at twelve where he thinks the Strip must be home to God. He earns a minor living distributing sheets for the low life casinos. However, when Betty, as he calls his mother, is killed, Zack leaves town. He returns several years later and becomes a student of the gambling experts who know every cheating trick possible. His advanced degree in cheating leads to his appointment as security manager at Vegas' Glitter Gulch until the owner's daughter Morgan fires him. In retaliation he rapes her and flees to Asia before eventually returning to SIN CITY only to learn he sired a child with Morgan.Five years have passed since Harold Robbins died and he still is cranking out tales as a prolific ghostwriter. The latest Robbins tale, SIN CITY, is perhaps "his" best novel in many years including when the author lived. Sort of written as a biographical fiction, the reader sees Las Vegas as a siren of the desert luring wannabes and cheats to its glittery idols. Fans of the author and his living retinue will enjoy SIN CITY by far the best of the posthumous career.Harriet Klausner