Sci-fi

The Devil's Game

by Poul Anderson
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Description

On an isolated island, seven people with a desperate need for money play a game conceived by an intelligence of perfect evil. The rules are simple: each player will perform an act: each of the others must duplicate it, or be eliminated. All that the players have in common is their desperation. One is a mercenary soldier with a taste for proving his manhood through self-torture. Another is a porno-starlet. A third is a perfectly ordinary mother whose seven-year-old's life depends on a million-dollar medical treatment Each of the seven thinks he or she will do anything all but one of them are wrong.

What it’s like

ViolenceVisceral/Realistic
CombatIncidental
HorrorTerrifying
SpiceModerate
ProfanityModerate

Details

First published
November 1980
Pages
255
Reading time
About 5 hours
Format
Novel
Audience
Adult
Publisher
Pocket
Language
English
ISBN
9780671836894
Series
Standalone

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