Heat Author:William Goldman Las Vegas security man Nick Escalante, an ex-Marine, chances on to a bizarre kidnapping threat and races into a night-time world of false identities, vicious grievances, and gruesome encounters.
"Goldman is a magician, an illusionist, a master of prose legerdemain...The dealers and pit bosses and hoodlums and compulsive gamblers of the Vegas demimonde come vividly to life....