In the glitz and glamour of Las Vegas, the Grim Reaper plays host... and his routine will slay them all!
Final Destination: Dead Man's Hand is a 2005 novel written by Steven A. Roman, and the fourth Black Flame book.
When Annie Goodwin travels to the desert oasis of Las Vegas, she hopes to turn her luck around. Life's dealt her a bad hand and her current luck seems to be no different. But when Annie has a premonition of a terrible accident, she takes steps to stop it from happening. Annie and four other people survive the ordeal and cheat Death. In a town where the odds are always in the house's favor, can Annie hope to beat the Reaper in this game when she's drawn the Dead Man's Hand?
Dead Man's Hand contains tropes such as:
- Book Ends: Whenever a survivor dies, we are given a rewrite of their introduction paragraph.
- Bring My Brown Pants: Arlen Ploog pisses his pants after he's smacked around and almost killed by a criminal.
- Dead Man's Hand: Alluded to in the title. Also shows up in the storyline.
- Death by Irony: Shawna despises big felines, yet she gets killed by a Jaguar. And no, we don't mean the cat
. - Decoy Protagonist: Aldis Escobar. The entire first chapter is dedicated to him... and he dies in a car accident on the last page of it, long before the book's disaster (the collapse of a glass elevator) even occurs.
- Downer Ending: Tom is run over by a truck, and shortly after his funeral, Allie finds out she has a malignant form of HIV.
- Evil Elevator: One of these is the opening disaster. A big glass elevator attached to the outside of "Merlin's Tower" winds up plummeting down onto the street below, killing everyone in it and some other bystanders.
- Groin Attack: One of the Necro Non Sequiturs ends with a survivor getting his penis bitten off by the prostitute who was giving him head.
- Half the Man He Used to Be: Officer Murphy.
- Viva Las Vegas!
