Super Con

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Las Vegas was where people came to make bad decisions, the town carefully constructed to propel visitors toward disaster. Every year, forty million tourists made a variety of bad decisions, including sleeping with people they barely knew, getting drunk enough to pass out in public, and gambling away their hard-earned dough on games they had virtually no chance of winning. That was the town’s origins, and it wasn’t changing anytime soon.

Even the town’s wise guys made bad decisions. Billy Cunningham was such a person, and his bad decision was to return to Vegas knowing a Chinese gangster named Broken Tooth wanted him dead. Broken Tooth had already sent a hit man to kill him and might try it again.

Billy had decided to risk it. People who cheated for a living risked getting hurt. It came with the territory. Cheat in a poker game, and you risked getting your thumbs broken. Cheat a casino, and you risked being hauled into a back room and beaten up. And if you double-crossed your partner when fixing the Super Bowl, you ran the risk of having a contract put out on your life.

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