title: The Ultimate Edge
author:  Mark Billings 
description: Mark Billings has written for numerous professional gambling publications, under a variety of pseudonyms, and is well regarded as an expert in the community of professional gamblers. He is the author of The Biased Wheel Handbook, widely recognized as a seminal work on the game of roulette. Mr. Billings lives a quiet life with an edge in the Vancouver, B.C. area.
zlib_text: **Table of Contents**
  
  > >  **RAZOR EDGE**
  
  > >  **Copyright**
  
  > >  **Dedications**
  
  > >  **Chapter One**
  
  > >  **Chapter Two**
  
  > >  **Chapter Three**
  
  > >  **Chapter Four**
  
  > >  **Chapter Five**
  
  > >  **Chapter Six**
  
  > >  **Chapter Seven**
  
  > >  **Chapter Eight**
  
  > >  **Chapter Nine**
  
  > >  **Chapter Ten**
  
  > >  **Chapter Eleven**
  
  > >  **Chapter Twelve**
  
  > >  **Chapter Thirteen**
  
  > >  **Chapter Fourteen**
  
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  RAZOR EDGE
  
  In Virginia City, Edge encounters a nervous magician named Willard, whose
  magic show attracts his attention. Deciding to stop, Edge gets caught between
  two drunken cowhands in the middle of a shootout. Edge saves a woman’s life,
  becomes the town hero and good buddies with Billings, owner of the Four aces.
  
  But Edge doesn’t know the history of Billings, an outlaw with a string of
  henchmen in his service, who killed Willard’s father ten years before. Abbie,
  Willard’s beautiful young sister, tries to seduce Edge and win him over to her
  b