Why You'll Love This
A supernatural heist set in a Las Vegas casino with a crew of magical misfits — Green moves fast and never lets you settle.
- Great if you want: slick occult heist fiction with sharp ensemble dynamics
- The experience: punchy and propulsive — 192 pages that don't waste a single one
- The writing: Green writes like a con man talks — breezy, witty, always slightly ahead of you
- Skip if: you want deep worldbuilding over style and momentum
About This Book
Gideon Sable owes a dangerous woman a very large favor, and collecting on it means pulling off the kind of heist that would give most criminals nightmares—stealing a legendary supernatural artifact from a Las Vegas casino with security that doesn't play by human rules. The stakes are personal as well as impossible: old grudges, fractured loyalties, and a crew held together mostly by mutual self-interest stand between Gideon and the clean slate he desperately needs. Simon R. Green drops readers into a London underworld where the weird and unnatural are simply part of the job description, and then sends everyone to Vegas, where things get considerably stranger.
What makes this second Gideon Sable installment worth your time is Green's relentless economy of storytelling. At under two hundred pages, nothing is wasted—every scene does work, every character has an edge, and the prose moves with the confidence of someone who knows exactly how much tension a sentence can hold before it snaps. Green writes supernatural crime fiction with a dry wit that keeps even the most outlandish moments grounded, and the ensemble dynamics here are sharp enough to cut. It's lean, propulsive, and genuinely fun to read.
