A brilliantly told tale of love, marriage, adultery, murder, and revenge Mafia-style. Both a love story and a bigger-than-life business story, CASINO exposes the secrets of Las Vegas's multibillion-dollar casino gambling industry-and how the mob finally lost its stranglehold over it. CASINO uncovers a fatal romantic love triangle among:
* Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal, gambling genius and the brians behind four casinos in Las Vegas, who now runs Croc's, a nightclub in Boca Raton, Florida;
* Tony Spilotro, Lefty's longtime friend and the muscle of the mob in Las Vegas;
* Geri Rosenthal, Lefty's beautiful blond showgirl wife, whose affair with Tony ultimately helped to destroy the "paradise" they had built for themselves in the desert.
CASINO is a real-life love story as well as Pileggi's inside account, in never-before-published detail, of a Mafia disaster-how the mob lost its control of the neon moneymaking machine it created. As one of the participants stated when it was all over, "We were given paradise on earth, but we fucked it all up."