Fool Me Once: Hustlers, Hookers, Headliners, and How Not to Get Screwed in Vegas

"It's a book that makes you want to move to Vegas... This book should be on your poolside reading list. The next time you need a book that is fun, helps you have a good time and requires no emotional attachment, Fool Me Once is what you are looking for." --NYDailyNews.com

"Lax succeeds at taking readers into the Vegas singles/club world in a way that is funny, illuminating and self-effacing... Fool Me Once marks real growth for Lax." --Las Vegas Weekly

"Fool Me Once is filled with entertaining stories about Lax finding a roommate (Oxana, a Russian dancer), learning how to get past choosy bouncers, hanging out with magicians, and discussing tips on picking up women from a master pickup artist." --Vegas Seven

"An oddly addicting read... With his background in magic and law, and his journalistic curiosity, Lax is well-equipped to pierce the illusions that make up the Las Vegas façade." --Las Vegas CityLife

"Rick Lax embedded himself with Vegas's most notorious magicians, call girls, and wheeler-dealers and emerged with a funny and fascinating cautionary tale for the rest of us. Anyone who's ever been scammed, bluffed, or lied to should read Fool Me Once." --Kevin Roose, author of The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University

"In a city where nothing is quite what it seems, Rick Lax introduces us to the showgirls, prostitutes, casino card counters, magicians, pickup artists, and street hustlers who work their short cons under the bright lights of the Las Vegas Strip. Fool Me Once is an illuminating read and terrific fun." --David Grazian, author of On the Make: The Hustle of Urban Nightlife

"Plenty of cons and cheap hustles in this lively memoir of time spent on the seamier edge of Casinoland... An entertaining field guide to vice, but also one with a point--if you're headed anywhere near the Strip, watch your wallet." --Kirkus Reviews

"Set in Las Vegas and incorporating a cast of characters including strippers, Criss Angel, bartenders, and Lance Burton, in the broadest sense, Fool Me Once is a funny, engaging, and personal discourse on deception in all its forms, magic tricks included." --Magic

"Rick Lax has written a wry, laugh-out-loud love letter to the world of deception." --Jim Steinmeyer, author of Art and Artifice: And Other Essays of Illusion

"First-time author Lax delivers an entertaining and sometimes zany look at the first year of law school... Lax's discoveries of what he didn't expect offer fascinating up-to-date insights." --Publishers Weekly on Lawyer Boy