A fast-paced, page-turning thriller for fans of Michael Connelly and Linwood Barclay. At twenty-seven, Natalie Webb is already a has-been . A card-trick prodigy, she performed on the world magic circuit at eighteen but a liaison with an older performer ended disastrously after he stole her act and blackened her name . With her career over, she now lives alone with her pigeons and a pile of overdue bills in a New Jersey apartment. To make ends meet, Natalie agrees to write a magazine article on the art of cheating at cards. While researching in Atlantic City, she meets Ellen - a beguiling card cheat with a dazzling sleight of hand . Ellen has targeted a group of gamblers called the Midnight Riders - a hedge fund manager, a car dealer mogul and a Senatorial candidate - who play an annual high-dollar poker game . Ellen proposes that they combine their skills to pull off the greatest illusion of all and walk away with $1.

5 million . But the rules of the game are about to change. 'Hopelessly addictive' MEGAN ABBOTT. ' Bluff climaxes with a spin worthy of the most adept con artists' BOOKLIST. 'A master at ratcheting up the suspense' LISA SCOTTOLINE.