Nick the Greek

In 1919, Nick Dandolos arrived in America from Greece in search of the dream America inspired throughout the world. Instead, tempted into a high-stakes game of cards, he is driven to humiliation and defeat. From these depths he begins his painstaking mastery of the skills of gambling under the tutelage of the legendary old gambler, Nestor, who tells him, "If God wished to learn to gamble, he would come to me."

Returning to take vengeance on the powerful men who had beaten him, Nick begins th...