[A writer tracks down the author of Dice Man, George Cockcroft, who turns out to be an ordinary old novelist retired on a farm in upstate New York, who developed the novel’s idea from a minor game played as a youth.
He profiles followers of the dice man approach, who turn out to be far more interesting as the dice pushes them into unusual risk-taking: for example, one Cuadrado, who “Like his father, he is a tax lawyer, but thanks to the dice he has also become a wine importer, a webmaster, a Go teacher, a fan of Iceland and the publisher of the Mauritian poet Malcolm de Chazal.”]