Something big is about to hit Las Vegas--and it ain't Wayne Newton. Nevada has just stabbed something inhuman to death in her dressing room at the Nile Hotel and Casino. Three thousand tourists are checking out of the place in a panic. And Raphael DeVesuvio's mob has just kidnapped Ogden Locke, the one man who knows what's really about to happen--and the only wino in town who owns a flaming sword.