title: Tales From The Pits: Casino Life
author: P J. Lev
description: Peter Levanti was a blue collar hard working family man whom is connected to his community; he grew up in the close knit family life in small suburban rural towns of Connecticut. Earned his welding degree; became a welder a a manufacturing plant in his area. The he jumped around for awhile from job to job because economy was tight. Finally he landed what he thought was a glamorous upscale fun job at a casino. Only to find out that there is more that goes on behind the scenes that the every day person would never understand or possible believe
zlib_text: CASINO ROYALE
  
  by Ian Fleming
  
  (1953)
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Chapter 1 - The Secret Agent
  
  The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the
  morning. Then the soul-erosion produced by high gambling - a compost of greed
  and fear and nervous tension - becomes unbearable and the senses awake and
  revolt from it.
  
  James Bond suddenly knew that he was tired. He always knew when his body or
  his mind had had enough and he always acted on the knowledge. This helped him
  to avoid staleness and the sensual bluntness that breeds mistakes.
  
  He shifted himself unobtrusively away from the roulette he had been playing
  and went to stand for a moment at the brass rail, which surrounded breast-
  high, the top table in the salle prive.
  
  Le Chiffre was still playing and still, apparently, winning. There was an
  untidy pile of flecked hundred-mille plaques in front of him. In the shadow of
  his thick left arm there nestled a discreet stack of the big yellow ones worth
  half a million francs each.
  