William C. Rempel is a veteran investigative reporter and editor who specialized in foreign and national projects. During a thirty-six-year career at the Los Angeles Times, he produced groundbreaking reports on subjects ranging from oil tanker safety prior to the Exxon Valdez disaster to the menace of al-Qaeda prior to September 11, 2001. He has received numerous journalism honors, including a shared Overseas Press Club Award for international terrorism reports and a Gerald Loeb Award for financial writing. He was also a finalist for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.
Gripping and fast-moving... the reporting and the level of detail are astounding... a riveting picture of a figure the world does not know very well, but should. -- <strong><em>Washington Post</em></strong> Rempel assembles a dizzying amount of information about the deals that made [Kerkorian] one of the richest men in America... Now in this most exhaustive biography, he remains as he was in life, a man of great wealth, power, honor, and mystery. -- <strong>New York Journal of Books</strong> The book provides a remarkably detailed and fascinating look at the career of an idiosyncratic tycoon. -- <strong>Booklist</strong> Chockablock with dialogue and intimate detail assembled by deep research... All sorts of celebrities-in business, sports, and elsewhere-glide through the text... [The Gambler] is the compelling story of a Horatio Alger. -- <strong>Kirkus Reviews</strong> an engrossing story of a self-made man. -- <strong><em>Publishers Weekly</em></strong> I recommend that every Armenian buy a copy of Kirk's biography and suggest it to their non-Armenian neighbors, friends and colleagues. Kerkorian's incredible accomplishments bestow a great honor upon Armenians worldwide! -- <strong><em>The California Courier</em></strong> A fast-moving, dramatic narrative of [Kerkorian's] larger-than-life business career. -- <strong><em>Washington Times</em></strong> The Gambler is an excellent tour de force biography of a true rags-to-riches impressario... A class act of a biography! -- <strong>Seattle Book Review</strong> Informative and entertaining...Rempel's The Gambler does justice to Kerkorian's life and legacy. -- <strong>CDC Gaming Reports, Inc.</strong> With The Gambler, Rempel has done Las Vegas and a generation of business entrepreneurs a great service, adding rich detail to the business titan's deals and controversies. Kerkorian's life is a reminder of how far Americans can go -- <strong>KNPR</strong>