The Damnation Game
- Author: Clive Barker
- Publisher: Warner Books
When you read a quote from Stephen King saying Clive Barker is the future of horror then you know you’re in for a treat when you pick one of Barker’s books up. But would The Damnation Game disappoint? Like hell it would.
Marty Strauss is in prison and his wife is leaving him. So when an offer is extended to him to get early parole but have to act as bodyguard for Joseph Whitehead, he inevitably accepts. Joseph Whitehead is extremely rich, probably one of the richest in Europe. But Whitehead is as eccentric as he’s wealthy.
Whitehead has played with chance, has been a gambler, and now his debts are starting to catch up with him. He gained vast power through a deal with, if not the devil, someone close. But all of this comes at a cost, and in Whitehead’s case it was something so precious it should never be given away, it was his very being — his soul.
Strauss becomes caught up in this game of power that he’s ill equipped to deal with. Thrust into a situation where a billionaires daughter is a heroin addict, who’s father supplies the drugs. Where he is seen as a toy of the rich, where no one will be tell him what’s going on. Tell him the truth.
What follows is gripping, tragic, tense, shocking and at the same time inevitable. If you enjoy horror books, then get a copy, you will be kept in a constant state of shock and confusion…
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