Beneath the Las Vegas that America sees on the Travel Channel- nightclubs, famous chefs, rambunctious gambling, celebrities at play-there's an older, stranger, harder city. A place whose citizens often gamble with more than just money, where you'd better be able to see what's coming before it arrives, where what happens there stays there because it can't go anywhere else. Jasper Lamar Crabbe is a stubborn, cagey survivor of this Las Vegas. Your guide through this purgatorial city, Jasper has seen it all and he knows everyone worth knowing-The Professor, The Duke, the Marino Brothers, Ginger...