The Damnation Game
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 1986
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 374
Copyright date: 1985
First sentence: 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.
Description: '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. <br />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...
Notes: A Sphere Book.

Originally published, London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985.
Table of contents: label: Part One
title: Terra Incognita
pagenum: 1; label: Part Two
title: Asylum
pagenum: 17; label: Part Three
title: Deuce
pagenum: 117; label: Part Four
title: The Thief's Tale
pagenum: 211; label: Part Five
title: The Deluge
pagenum: 235