Take a sneak peek at Fold, by Tom Campbell
How can you disguise a ‘tell’ if no one will tell you what yours is? Does lucky in cards really mean unlucky in love? And does anyone actually know whether two pairs is a good hand or not?
Due to be published in June, Bloomsbury have ten copies of Fold to give away by May 3rd!
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Reading, 2009. It may not be Vegas, but for Nick, Doug, Vijay, Alan and Simon, it’s as good as they’re going to get.
Each in their forties, and beset by anxieties, flaws and frustrations, they meet monthly in each other’s houses for a ‘friendly’ game of poker, enabling Doug to show off his new-minted wealth, Simon to insist on serving only red wine and goats’ cheese and Nick – swimming in a cocktail of envy, fear, bravado and disappointment – to make increasingly desperate attempts to bring an end to his interminable losing streak.
While Vijay meticulously records every win and loss on his spreadsheet, and Alan frets about his propensity to break into sweat and his inability to get his wife pregnant, Nick becomes obsessed with the idea of engineering Doug’s downfall: Doug, who with his big house, his successful business and his appalling taste is both everything that Nick aspires to and resents. Convinced of the heroic nature of his task, he aims to triumph over Doug in poker, as well as in life, and in doing so he comes into troubling proximity to Sophia, Doug’s clever and beautiful wife…
Simply send an email to sneakpeek@bloomsbury.com by the 3rd May and ten winners will be selected at random. Please include your name and address so they can send you a copy if you win.
