| Description |
[ix], 390 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 387-390. |
| Summary |
"During the 1990s, two Connecticut Indian tribes built the world's two biggest gambling casinos in the southeastern corner of the state, resulting in what has been termed a "gambling Chernobyl". The novel is set against those events and begins in 1637 with the massacre of the Pequot Indians and a curse delivered by a Pequot sachem to the young English soldier who is about to kill him. The story then jumps 350 years as the soldier's thirteenth-generation descendant, Josh Williams, becomes embroiled in a battle to stop a new-minted Indian tribe from building a third casino that threatens his town and ancestral home. The lure of easy money drives everyone from the tribe's chief to a shadowy Miami billionaire, venal politicians, and Providence mobsters, while a small, quintessential New England town must choose between preserving its character or accepting an extraordinary proposal that will change it forever. As the battle over the casino reaches a climax, Josh discovers startling truths about his family's past - including centuries-old events that appear to be impacting the present with devastating effect" P. [4] of cover. |
| Note |
Timeline p. 383. |
| Subject |
Casinos -- Fiction.
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Indians of North America -- Gambling -- Fiction.
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| Local Subject |
Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Gambling -- Fiction.
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| Subject |
Connecticut -- Fiction.
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| ISBN |
9781937146177 |
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1937146170 |
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