The Damnation Game
by Clive Barker
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'It was an odd disease. Its symptoms were like infatuation–palpitations, sleeplessness. Its only certain cure, death...'
Chance had ruled Marty Strauss' life for as long as he could remember. Now at last luck was turning his way.
Parolled from prison, he becomes bodyguard to Joseph Whitehead, one of the richest men in Europe.
But Whitehead has also played with chance – an ancient game which gave him vast power and wealth, in exchange for his immortal soul.
Now the forces he played against are back to claim what's theirs. Terrifying forces, with the power to raise the dead; and Marty is trapped between his human masters and Hell itself, with just one last, desperate game left to play...
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The Damnation Game
July 1988, Jove Books
Mass Market Paperback
in English
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1557731136 9781557731135
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The damnation game
1985, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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0297787209 9780297787204
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"The air was electric the day the thief crossed the city, certain that tonight, after so many weeks of frustration, he would finally locate the card-player."
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A Sphere Book.
Originally published, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.
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