Lay the Favourite

The Lucky Charm. The Sure Thing. The Long Shot. The Jinx. Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner and living in a fleapit motel. Then she meets Dink, the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, and strippers, wise-guys and hardened cons. New to the game but with big ambitions, Beth must get smart to get ahead. The real money is off-shore, where gambling regulations don't count. But nor do other rules. In the free-wheeling caribbean Beth discovers that the difference between winning big and losing everything comes down to how sharp you play.

The Lucky Charm. The Sure Thing. The Long Shot. The Jinx.

Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner and living in a fleapit motel.

Then she meets Dink, the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, and strippers, wise-guys and hardened cons.

New to the game but with big ambitions, Beth must get smart to get ahead. The real money is off-shore, where gambling regulations don't count. But nor do other rules. In the free-wheeling caribbean Beth discovers that the difference between winning big and losing everything comes down to how sharp you play.

Préface

A true story of money, sex, glamour and gambling - now a major film starring Bruce Willis, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Vince Vaughan.

Auteur
Beth Raymer lives in New York City. Lay the Favourite is her first book.

Texte du rabat

Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead, she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner and living in a fleapit motel.

Then she meets Dink, the king of Las Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testosterone-fuelled underworld of high-stakes gambling - a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, strippers, wise-guys and hardened cons.

New to the game but with big ambitions, Beth must get smart to get ahead and she discovers that the difference between winning big and losing everything comes down to how sharp you play.

'Candid, smart, funny, wild and crazy'
Elle

'Raymer's hilarious memoir ricochets through the gambling underworld, peopled with all manner of loveable wack-jobs, none of whom is quite as wacky - or loveable - as Raymer herself'
Marie Claire

'Dark, wildly affectionate and very, very funny'
Stephen Frears