Product Description

Albuquerque adobe builder (and technically ex-con) Bob Wince is back! Readers met him in Richard Peck’s Bravo Award-nominated Dead Pawn. In Jackalope Ca$ino, Wince—neck-deep in a pair of Albuquerque building projects—helps Leela Begay block the creation of a Las Vegas-owned casino in Window Rock, and works to prove that Buck Tsosie’s not really Navajo but Tlaxcalan, descended from the Mexican Indians who built Santa Fe’s San Miguel church. A very New Mexico story, Jackalope Ca$ino ricochets from Albuquerque to Santa Fe to Gallup to Las Vegas, from base-jumping to craps lessons, from burritos to prime rib, with Wince and his crew dodging bankruptcy, arrest warrants, and gunfire. And Bob Wince juggles them all, with mixed success.

Reviews:

…great characters, wide knowledge of casino business… and the complicated relationships between Anglo, Hispanic and Dine. – Francis Roe, author of Berlin Rules

Jackalope Ca$ino is a winning tale of greed, scams, and double-crosses that will have you racing to the last page… worth a movie deal. – R. Kresge, Amazon Review

Peck is a master of character description and Jackalope Ca$ino is splendid, characters fascinating… the end a great surprise, very cinematic. Peck’s readers… have really hit the jackpot. – S. Krippner, author of The Mythic Path

…great for a plane trip! – Barb Awalt, Viva New Mexico