The fifth street fall
A Crime Thriller by Barry Sargent. Some debts don’t die. Some cards don’t forget. Ten years after walking away from the game that cost him everything, legendary card shark Jack Reno is cleaning floors in a backwater Reno casino, trying to forget. But when his estranged niece shows up with a busted lip, a gambling debt, and a name from Jack’s past—Colt Vance—he’s dragged back into a world where the cards are marked, the stakes are blood, and the past is never really folded. Colt is no longer just a hotshot kid—he runs a private high-stakes tournament where the house never loses and everyone has a price. But Jack has one thing left: his mind. And maybe, just maybe, a shot at the truth about the night his brother died over a rigged hand on Fifth Street. With time running out and a target on his back, Jack enters the game one last time—not to win, but to burn it all down.