About the book: 1993 / The hero of the novel "Casino" Alain Pipe, a young clerk with the habits of a playmaker, thanks to a bank computer error, discovers in his beggarly account a fabulous amount. Knowing that he will lose the wealth that has so unexpectedly fallen upon him as soon as the mistake is revealed, the newly minted millionaire is in a hurry to live for his own pleasure. In the famous casino on the Cote d'Azur of the Mediterranean Sea, a young rake with amazing carelessness wastes all his fortune, which instantly raises him in the eyes of the local "beau monde" to an unattainable height. And crazy money flowed like a river to the recent poor man…