New Castle's Las Vegas Guys: Gangsters, Gamblers, and Dealers

Revel at the tales of these locals boys from Southwestern Pennsylvania going west to seek their Sin City dreams.

As turmoil rocked New Castle in the 1970s, a group of young men completed their military service and came home to a bleak future. Without college degrees or marketable skills, they found few options in Western Pennsylvania. Looking for a better life, they turned their eyes west.

Las Vegas promised women, gambling, excitement, and the chance to make a buck. Over their decades on the floors of Sin City's casinos, they would rub shoulders with gangsters and stars and keep a sharp eye out for opportunity--and for card counters.

Based on hours of exclusive interviews, author Dale Perelman unfolds this cavalier group's frolicking adventures as they navigate their way from the belly of the downtown Golden Gate to some of the Strip's premier casinos, while they teetered along the right side of the law.