High Stakes

Some men chase money. Felix Remy chases the feeling of almost having it.

By day he moves used cars off a Van Nuys lot. By night he feeds machines that sing his name in a language only the desperate speak.

Then Olivia happens.

She lives fourteen floors above a casino in the San Bernardino foothills, seventy miles and one tax bracket past everything Felix has ever touched. She takes one look at Felix and opens the door. Now the marble knows his shoe size. The champagne arrives without being ordered. The watch on his wrist costs more than every car he ever sold.

None of it is his. He wears it anyway.

What happens when you risk everything, and the only thing left to lose is yourself?

High Stakes is a fever ride through addiction, appetite, and the influencer-age American dream. If you crave the sweat of Uncut Gems, the swagger of Martin Amis's Money, and the compulsion of Dostoevsky's The Gambler, you'll love Cristian Mihai's plunge into the head of a man who confuses falling with flying.