Gambler is authentic it is the real thing. What a true gambler knows and sees about and in gambling.

This book plays with you. It makes a difference. Psychoanalysis combined with art combined with taste and wisdom

This might sound weird but over the past 20 years I have read this amazing piece of art more than 6 or 7 times each time telling myself ahaaa I understood everything now. A philosophical look into humans life and loneliness. An account of pure love versus conventional likings. The book simply hurts and mesmerizes. Not a beach reading unless the sea is dark and rough.

Just fantastic. Never miss. It grabs you firm and never lets go of you. A mature work of art with a strong historical backbone. Just like when jungle meets the ocean and you are the only driver on the road that separates them. Enjoy.

Top notch work of a reliable and academic historian. This is by far the most unbiased book I as an avid reader of history have read on Pahlavi dynasty in Iran. Fabulous narration along with meticulous choice of words representing a painstaking process research. Something you especially Iranian fellows would not put down easily. Viva Abbas Milani