Not Saleable For Sale: A Poker Boy story

By Dean Wesley Smith

Lenny the Leprechaun’s wife went missing and now he wants Poker Boy to find her. Not known for finding people, Poker Boy only rescues people and dogs and the world in the process.

Mrs. Lenny’s vanishing act seems to have no connection to Poker Boy. Until Poker Boy looks deeper. Then Poker Boy knows he might be able to save her, if she still lives. Which he doubts.

Bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith has written more than one hundred popular novels and well over 100 published short stories.

His novels include the science fiction novel Laying the Music to Rest and the thriller The Hunted as D.W. Smith. With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. He writes under many pen names and has also ghosted for a number of top bestselling writers.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He is now executive editing for Fiction River.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WMG Publishing
• Release date: Jun 1, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458048851

Dean Wesley Smith

Considered one of the most prolific writers working in modern fiction, USA TODAY bestselling writer, Dean Wesley Smith published far over a hundred novels in forty years, and hundreds of short stories across many genres. He currently produces novels in four major series, including the time travel Thunder Mountain novels set in the old west, the galaxy-spanning Seeders Universe series, the urban fantasy Ghost of a Chance series, and the superhero series staring Poker Boy. During his career he also wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds.

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Not Salable For Sale

A Poker Boy Story

Dean Wesley Smith

Not Salable For Sale

Copyright © 2013 by Dean Wesley Smith

Published by WMG Publishing

Cover Design copyright © 2013 WMG Publishing

Cover art copyright Linda Bucklin/Dreamstime

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Chapter One

Seeing a leprechaun appear in a small casino in the mountains of Oregon can make even a professional poker player like me lose my train of thought.

I flipped my A-10 off-suit into the muck and turned to my right as the leprechaun waved at me.

He had on the standard, leprechaun-green top hat that didn’t cover his pointed ears but sort of rode on them like they were training wheels for the big hat. He had a green jacket, brown pants, and a long-stemmed pipe in his mouth that didn’t seem to be lit. It stuck out of his scraggly red beard like a weed out of a