num_pages: 138
description: "Two guys with guts and a go-to-hell-with-you-Jack regard for consequences have about three chances in ten of pulling off a big, well-planned smash-and-grab.  If one of them can shoot like me . . . the odds are a damn sight better."In the course of his line of business, the man who calls himself Roy Martin has robbed a bank in Phoenix, killed three men, and caught a bullet in his arm.  Safety--and one half of $178,000--awaits him on the other side of the country.  All that separates "Martin" from his destination are two thousand treacherous miles and three lethal   to trust the wrong friend, to love the right woman, and to start believing that a man like himself can ever be safe.The Name of the Game is Death combines a narrative as taut as a hangman's rope with chillingly authentic insights into the psychology of casual murder.
language: English
title: The Name of the Game Is Death
titlecomplete: The Name of the Game Is Death (Drake, #1)
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Thriller, Suspense, Pulp, 20th Century, Crime, Noir, Novels, Hard Boiled
ratings_count: 761
series: Drake - The Man With Nobody's Face
publisher: Vintage