Last Call
by Tim Powers
Dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. K. PotterSubterranean Press is proud to present Tim Powers’s Fisher King Trilogy in a matching hardcover set. Only one of the three, Last Call, has been released previously as a limited edition, in a gorgeous version published by Charnel House, now priced out of the range of most collectors. Artist J. K. Potter will be illustrating each of the volumes, to give them a uniform look, and ensure they take up residence on the permanent shelf of any serious collector or Powers fan. ***Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards--but now the cards, and the supernatural powers behind them, have found him again. Crane’s father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become King of the West, and to keep that power he is now determined to kill his son--and Scott Crane must cross the Mojave Desert to his father’s Perilous Chapel in Las Vegas, and take up the cards again for one last poker duel in a deadly game to save his soul. Limited: 500 numbered copies, hardcover, signed by authorLettered: Matching set of 26 copies of Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather, bound in leather and cloth, signed by author, housed in custom traycases
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Dust jacket and interior illustrations by J. K. PotterSubterranean Press is proud to present Tim Powers’s Fisher King Trilogy in a matching hardcover set. Only one of the three, Last Call, has been released previously as a limited edition, in a gorgeous version published by Charnel House, now priced out of the range of most collectors. Artist J. K. Potter will be illustrating each of the volumes, to give them a uniform look, and ensure they take up residence on the permanent shelf of any serious collector or Powers fan. ***Twenty years ago Scott Crane abandoned his career as a professional poker player and went into hiding, after a weird high-stakes game played with Tarot cards--but now the cards, and the supernatural powers behind them, have found him again. Crane’s father killed gangster Bugsy Siegel in 1948 to become King of the West, and to keep that power he is now determined to kill his son--and Scott Crane must cross the Mojave Desert to his father’s Perilous Chapel in Las Vegas, and take up the cards again for one last poker duel in a deadly game to save his soul. Limited: 500 numbered copies, hardcover, signed by authorLettered: Matching set of 26 copies of Last Call, Expiration Date, and Earthquake Weather, bound in leather and cloth, signed by author, housed in custom traycases