Invasions

by Nancy Holder

Gambler's Star (No 3)

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When the puritanical League of Decency outlawed gambling and other vices on Earth, Moonbase Vegas became just about the only place left to have a good time. The six Mafia families who ran the lunar casinos wanted to keep it that way. But then the world's richest man, Hunter Castle, appeared in orbit around the moon and calmly announced his intention of muscling in on the action. Nothing has been the same for Deuce McNamara since. Once a bagman for the lowly Borgioli clan, Deuce's association show more with Hunter Castle has made him the Godfather of the Moon. But the job isn't all it's cracked up to be. Earth has declared war on the Moon. Deuce's wife, the beautiful Sparkle de Lune, has betrayed him, leaving with Castle on a mysterious mission to the space of the alien !kth are planning an invasion...one only he can stop. Provided he lives that long when disgruntled Family members are out to get him at every turn. Dealt cards like these, most gamblers would fold. But not Deuce McNamara. Not when the stakes he's playing for are the lives of his wife and children...and the fate of all mankind. show less

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Nancy Holder is the coauthor with Chistopher Golden of the original Watcher's Guide and several Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels, as well as numerous Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Salem's Tails books. (Publisher Provided) Nancy Holder was born in Los Altos, California. When she was sixteen, she dropped out of high school to become a ballet dancer show more in Cologne, Germany. Eventually she returned to California and graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego with a degree in Communications. Soon after, she began to write; her first sale was a young adult romance novel titled Teach Me to Love. She is a four-time winner of the Bram Stoker Award and has received accolades from the American Library Association, the American Reading Association, the New York Public Library, and Romantic Times. show less

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Invasions

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813Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English
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