Grifter's Game by Lawrence BlockRead about the other entries on the list.
This includes a beautifully bleak drug-addled ceremony in Las Vegas, but to be honest I'm mainly including it because it was the first book in the Hard Case Crime series, which is just about the best bit of publishing there has ever been – hardboiled suspense fiction old and new in glorious paperbacks. It's hard to read anything else these days.
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--Marshal Zeringue