Morton Waterhouse, like a postmodern Miniver Cheevy, happily imagines himself an ancient emperor as he wanders around in a toga in a Roman-themed Las Vegas megaresort.

But Morton’s Pax Romana comes crashing down when his father, Bill, is diagnosed with “atomic amnesia” and other questionable ailments by the family’s unconventional psychologist, Dr. Nichols—and is given mere days to live.

While trying to help his dad, Morton gets recruited into Casinolabs, a mysterious casino design firm. Here, among the lovely Helen, the zany Stuart, and the enigmatic Dough, Morton feels strangely at home.

But as Morton and Dr. Nichols dig deeper, their paths converge in Casinolabs’ shadowy basement corridors, where they uncover the hidden truth about Bill’s condition—and Vegas’s darkest secret.
Casinolabs is a satirical psychological thriller about deception, family ties, nuclear fallout, video poker, and a covert mind-control weapons program hiding in plain sight.