{"product_id":"book-c2o4","title":"Positively Fifth Street","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRough sex, black magic, and the science--and eros--of gambling.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMeet in the ultimate book about Las Vegas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJames McManus was sent to Las Vegas by \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e  to cover the World Series of Poker in 2000, especially the mushrooming  progress of women in the $23-million event, and the murder of Ted  Binion, the tournament's prodigal host, purportedly done in by a  stripper and her boyfriend with a technique so outré it took a Manhattan  pathologist to identify it. Whether a jury would convict the attractive  young couple was another story altogether.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMcManus risks his entire \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e  advance in a long-shot attempt to play in the tournament himself. Only  with actual table experience, he tells his skeptical wife, can he  capture the hair-raising brand of poker that determines the world  champion. The heart of the book is his deliciously suspenseful account  of the tournament itself--the players, the hand-to-hand, and his own  unlikely progress in it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten in the tradition of \u003ci\u003eThe Gambler \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Biggest Game in Town, Positively Fifth Street\u003c\/i\u003e  is a high-stakes adventure, a penetrating study of America's card game,  and a terrifying but often hilarious account of one man's effort to  understand what Edward O. Wilson has called \"Pleistocene  exigencies\"--the eros and logistics of our primary competitive  instincts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49394525667632,"sku":"BDc2o4","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/c2o4-cover.jpg?v=1761767029","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-c2o4","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}