Palm Trees and Poker Chips

Chance Daly began his gambling career pitching pennies, playing cards, and shooting dice. Barely out of his teens, he created a church-sponsored, charity-blessed bingo and card room emporium-and ultimately an Internet gaming site.

He sold those operations for a cool $10 million and invested everything in stocks and bonds. That was the good news. The bad news was all that happened just before the stock market fell off the proverbial cliff in 2008. He lost it all, but he was...
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Chance Daly began his gambling career pitching pennies, playing cards, and shooting dice. Barely out of his teens, he created a church-sponsored, charity-blessed bingo and card room emporium-and ultimately an Internet gaming site.

He sold those operations for a cool $10 million and invested everything in stocks and bonds. That was the good news. The bad news was all that happened just before the stock market fell off the proverbial cliff in 2008. He lost it all, but he was determined to make it back to the top.

So when Chance learns that a hurricane-ravaged hotel, casino, and golf resort in the Caribbean is available, he is on it like white on rice. But the process of due diligence required for such a purchase takes him and his associates down some very interesting paths-and into some dark places.

Along the way, they run into casino cheating, money laundering, kidnapping, a host of true life characters who have their own extraordinary stories, and a murder. But who did it, when, and why are all questions that still need to be answered.