Chapter Ten
Tuesday, October 21
6:45 PM
Excalibur Hotel and Casino
Las Vegas
With the evening, Las Vegas lit up like the Fourth of July. Up and down the Strip, casinos and hotels pulsated with enough light to dazzle the sensors of a weather satellite: bright green illuminating the MGM Grand, Caesar’s, and Harrah’s; cool blue on the Imperial Palace and Bally’s; golden yellow on Treasure Island and the Mirage; crimson on the Rio and the Flamingo Hilton.
Craig took his rental car down Tropicana Avenue past the MGM Grand’s monumental crouching lion. To his left, the enormous black pyramid of the Luxor blazed its white beacon into space. When he found the Excalibur, he had to stop himself from laughing at the pearlescent turrets topped with scarlet and blue conical roofs. It was what Crai
