I had high hopes for this book, feeling the same mix of ambivalence and distaste for gambling as McGuire and hoping for something insightful and fresh on the topic from her book. The story is set up around the manslaughter trial of bouncers from Crown Casino, in a very similar way to the way that Anna Krien's Night Games uses the rape trial of a footballer to explore sex and gender issues in Australian sport. Unfortunately, McGuire's book didn't really take the broader story very far, instead getting hung up mostly on the trial (with a slightly out of place but interesting interview with David Walsh to break things up). As a story of a tragic death and troubling legal process the book works well, but as an examination of gambling, morality, regulation and law in Australia it falls a bit short.