A high-tech adventure about breaking the bank in Las Vegas with toe-operated computers. “The result is a veritable piñata of a book, which, when smashed by the reader’s enthusiastic attention, showers upon him everything from the history of useless roulette systems to the latest developments in chaos theory,” said The New York Times.

Richard Dawkins called it “an astonishing and fascinating tale of scientific heroism.”

The Los Angeles Times said that “Bass has done the best job so far of capturing the marriage of technical imagination and the communal coziness that gave birth to Silicon Valley.”