Vegas II – A gambling world[1] and the location of an off-planet branch of Roarke Industries, mentioned in Naked in Death[2]; sometimes called “Vegas Two.”[3]
- It was on Vegas II that Randall Slade worked up an impressive debt at a casino owned by Roarke before Glory in Death;[4] this was also the location of Lilligas in Immortal in Death.[5]
- The killer in Vengeance in Death bounced his transmission to Eve about Jennie O’Leary’s murder from “Orion, into Stockholm, up into Vegas Two, and through Sydney” (it originated in New York, of course).[3]
- Paul Lamont booked “a private compartment on the off-planet transport to Vegas II,” using “a false name and identification number” before being killed in Loyalty in Death.[6]
- Max Ricker also owned property, the Nile River Hotel, on Vegas II in Judgment in Death.[7]
- In Judgment in Death, an ad blimp touted the delights of a package deal to Vegas II: “Four days, three nights, round-trip and deluxe accommodations for two, all for the low-low-low price of twelve thousand and eighty-five.”[8]
- The Swingers Palace was, according to Dickie Berenski, an elegant all-nude resort on Vegas II from which he had just returned from a week long vacation in Portrait in Death.[9]
- Grant Swisher’s mother remarried-third time-and lived on Vegas II in Survivor in Death[10], and Jilly Isenberry was a flight attendant on the New York to Vegas II route until just before the beginning of the story, telling her roommate, Sade Tully, she was going to base on Vegas II now.[11]
- The company Nigel McEnroy helped found, Perfect Placement, had an office on Vegas II in Vendetta in Death.[12]
- Other mentions.[13]
References:
- ↑ Survivor in Death (ISBN 0-425-20418-9), p. 228
- ↑ Naked in Death (ISBN 0-425-14829-7), pp. 19-20
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vengeance in Death, Chapter 8
- ↑ Glory in Death (ISBN 0-425-15098-4), p. 79
- ↑ Immortal in Death (ISBN 0-425-15378-9), pp. 277, 286
- ↑ Loyalty in Death, Chapter 17
- ↑ Judgment in Death (ISBN 0-425-17630-4), p. 69
- ↑ Judgment in Death, Chapter 10
- ↑ Portrait in Death (ISBN 0-425-18903-1), p. 66
- ↑ Survivor in Death. Chapter 2
- ↑ Survivor in Death. Chapter 15
- ↑ Vendetta in Death, Chapter 1
- ↑ Judgment in Death, Chapter 16; Betrayal in Death, Chapters 11 and 17; Innocent in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15401-0), p. 257; Creation in Death, Chapter 17; Promises in Death (ISBN 978-0-399-15548-2), p. 69; Salvation in Death, Chapter 19; Treachery in Death, Chapter 15; Celebrity in Death, Chapter 7; Forgotten in Death, Chapter 16