Tom Brew has been an award-winning reporter and editor for more than three decades at some of America's finest newspapers in Florida and Indiana. He's able to take you deep into the throes of a gambling addiction in this novel because he's been there before himself, and he has helped hundreds of other compulsive gamblers going forward in the past 20 years. Born and raised in Indiana, he is a graduate of Indiana University and currently lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.