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History, timeliness, and mystery
Politicians today face a dilemma of skyrocketing taxes to pay for the increasing demands made from their constituents.
A new program the states are beginning to take advantage of is gaming. Gaming has been around for a long time but was only
legalized in the state of Nevada. Then New Jersey's Atlantic City was spawned from the large casinos in Las Vegas. Now,
with the court rulings authorizing off-shore gambling in international waters, the states found a loophole. Soon, gambling
river boats were docked from New Orleans to St. Louis and many other rivers designated as international waterways.
Lawyers proclaimed the Indian Nations as sovereign states, not governed by either the state or federal bureaucracies.
Casino gambling is now a huge business and the American Indian is finally getting back at the European settlers who pushed
them from their land so many years ago. This new financial freedom didn't come cheap. McFarland has picked a moment in fiction-history
telling one story out of thousands. With facts and fiction intertwined, this story leads the reader on a fantastic journey
through the Indian spiritual world, the dark gambling underworld, and the questionable Washington, D.C. political world with
detective Nick Starr's quest to solve a murder.
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A retired police detective, turned private, is summoned
by an old friend to investigate the murder of her fiancé. Was it a murder or assassination? The director of the Bureau of
Indian Affairs was shot after leaving Vice President Bush's summer home at Walker Point in Kennebunkport, Maine. Nick Starr's
investigation is facilitated by strange visions sent by the victim's grandfather, a shaman, from his reservation in Arizona.
Danger and adventure surround Nick as he immerses into the underworld of the glitzy and glamorous city of Las Vegas to the
hallowed granite buildings of Washington, D.C. A power struggle for casino gambling on the reservations of America is up for
grabs and just how far will the Vegas Families go to win that struggle? And what is the "Conti Connection" that takes Nick
from Maine to Miami to Vegas and then to Washington, D.C.?
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