Vegas Sushi: A Novel

A Twisted Vegas Fairy Tale...Gates used to be one of the good guys at the LVPD; now he's a seedy Vegas PI who's as heartless as a tin man—and proud of it. He has a psychic gift for poker, but it costs him a day of his life each time he uses it. Still, he plans to risk it all for a chance to win the Las Vegas Grand Poker Tournament. All he needs is cash for the buy-in.Enter Sunny Bunny: a Kansas girl chasing a Vegas dream. She also has a deadly gift: men fall in love with her… then they die. On the run from her unstable husband, she hires Gates to find her missing friend. Gates knows she's trouble but takes the case anyway.The job quickly plunges Gates and Sunny deep into the horrific Vegas underworld where crime, demons, and human monsters blur together. They meet Matsu, a terrifying tycoon who thinks he's as powerful as Oz himself. He even has a great white shark in his living room. Matsu demands that Gates use his psychic ability to find a legendary ceramic carp rumored to grant wishes—or Sunny gets fed to the shark.Will cold-hearted Gates chase after the carp to save Sunny… or play the tournament of his life and leave her to face Matsu alone?Vegas Sushi is a dark, surreal crime novel—Pulp Fiction meets The Wizard of Oz—where dreams and reality collide beneath the neon lights.