Double or Nothing

Seventh in Craig Schaefer's Daniel Faust series, this installment finds Las Vegas's resident sorcerer-turned-crime-boss caught between a debt he cannot dodge and an enemy who fights with godlike power. The job is a heist of staggering difficulty, with layers of security both mundane and occult standing between Faust and his target. While he plots and schemes, his partner Caitlin faces a parallel crisis as a years-old conspiracy surfaces, threatening to unravel her carefully maintained standing in the courts of Hell. Both storylines converge on a single, brutal question: can two people outmaneuver an opponent who has already anticipated their every move?

Adam Verner brings Schaefer's Las Vegas underworld to vivid life, shifting fluidly between Faust's sardonic interior voice and a cast of demons, mobsters, and con artists. The story's heist mechanics and layered political maneuvering benefit from audio pacing, keeping tension tight across the nearly ten-hour runtime. Verner's performance makes even the quieter character moments land with real weight.