This book tells the story of a group of students from Massachusetts Institute of Technology who bet on blackjack games using a sophisticated card counting system, earning millions of dollars at casinos in Las Vegas and other gambling centers in the United States and the Caribbean.
[7][8][9] In 2004, Mezrich published Ugly Americans: The True Story of the Ivy League Cowboys Who Raided the Asian Markets for Millions.
[10] In 2005, Mezrich published Busting Vegas: The MIT Whiz Kid Who Brought the Casinos to Their Knees, a semi-sequel to Bringing Down the House.
As with Bringing Down the House, many of the events depicted in Busting Vegas were later contested by main character Semyon Dukach, who described the book as "only about half true".
Ten years later, in May 2019, Mezrich published a sequel centering on Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss: Bitcoin Billionaires: A True Story of Genius, Betrayal, and Redemption.
[13][14] Publishers Weekly wrote that "Mezrich has written a rollicking adventure with a fantastic behind-the-scenes tour of some of the world's most intriguing spots.
"[15] His 2021 book, The Antisocial Network: The GameStop Short Squeeze and the Ragtag Group of Amateur Traders That Brought Wall Street to Its Knees, was adapted into the film Dumb Money[16] directed by Craig Gillespie.
[23] Fatal Error is a TBS premiere movie adaptation of his second book, Reaper, starring Antonio Sabato, Jr. and Robert Wagner.