The old west comes alive in modern-day Las Vegas when bodies start turning up in the desertTrenton Russell loved working for the CIA but quit to play hi-stakes blackjack when one of his opts goes south because of his intel and he loses a woman he loved. Now as a civilian, trying desperately to recreate himself, he chooses journalism as a career, exposing secrets, not being part of them. When his best friend's daughter is taken in Las Vegas, a city already being terrorized by a serial killer, he must use all his old skills to find her before it's too late. He soon discovers that all is not what it seems. That he has stepped into a web of lies and deceit that rivals anything the CIA ever threw him into. He finds an unexpected friend in a Navajo tribal policeman and a beautiful feisty stripper whose brazen sexuality reawakens his desire for love. His one rudder in a life of turmoil and intrigue is when playing blackjack, he gets "visions" in the flashing cards. Glimpses of truth behind the walls of B.S, and more often than not, the stakes are not money but human lives.