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|title=Straight Flush

|author=Ben Mezrich

|publisher=William Heinemann

|date=June 2013

|website=http://www.benmezrich.com

|summary=The only criticism that can be launched at Ben Mezrich's excellent new book is that it could do with being longer! Another great read from one of the best non-fiction authors out there today. Ben Mezrich popped into Bookbag Towers to [[The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Ben Mezrich|chat to us]].

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Ben Mezrich's latest book tells the story of six college kids - frat brothers from the University of Montana - who built up AbsolutePoker.com, one of the world's largest poker sites - only for it to come crashing down as the legality of online poker became more and more of an issue, with the Department of Justice getting involved. We find out in the first chapter, as one of the six prepares to return to the USA from Central America to face prosecution, that things have gone horribly wrong. Just how horribly wrong, we have to wait to find out...