· The Name of the Game Is Death / One Endless Hour by Dan J. Marlowe. Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Start by marking “The Name of the Game Is Death / One Endless Hour” as Want to Read: Want to Read. saving. Want to Read. Currently Reading. Read/5. Marlowe's most famous book and his best-known character arrived from Fawcett Gold Medal Books in ("The Name of the Game Is Death"). aka Albert Avellano, Jaime Sandaval, Gar Wilson (house name) Dan J. Marlowe was a middle-aged businessman who, in the personal turmoil after the death of his wife of many years, decided to abandon his old life. He started writing, and his first novel was 4/5. The Name of the Game is Death is essential. The story: a career criminal calling himself Roy Martin (more on his name later) holes up after a botched bank robbery, while his partner sends him monthly allotments of their take. But when the money stops coming, Martin suspects the worst and sets off to find out what happened/5.
Editions for The Name of the Game Is Death: (Paperback published in ), (Paperback published in ), (Kindle Edition published. THE NAME OF THE GAME IS DEATH by DAN J. MARLOWE, c The only time I was ever in the pen, the boss head-shrinker gave me up as a bad job. "You're amoral," [he] told me. "You have no respect for authority. Your values are not civilized values." -- Black Lizard, ISBN , reprint , c, p It features two of Marlowe's best novels, which really, are two halves a single story: The Name of the Game is Death (Gold Medal ), and One Endless Hour (Gold Medal ). The novels tell the genesis story of Marlowe's Earl Drake series character. Drake is not a likable man. He is a bank robber with a predilection for killing people.
“Nobody wrote tougher prose than Dan J. Marlowe. Nobody,” according to Barry Gifford. In his legendary Black Lizard series Barry Gifford made The Name of the Game Is Death and three other Marlowe novels available to the American public of the 80s, thus also re-discovering him for many former readers. Although Marlowe’s books have been out of print for several years now, the reputation of his gangster-hero remains unbroken among fans of hard-boiled crime stories. DAN J. MARLOWE. “ The Vengeance Man is his second best book, behind only The Name of the Game is Death. The corruption of virtually every important character in the book is thorough.”. – Charles Kelly, from his introduction. The Name of the Game is Death is indeed hard-boiled heaven. It features an antihero you root for even though you know he’d take your head off if you got in his way, some purely evil characters whose heads you hope the antihero will take off, other, more likable people, raw sex, retribution, suspense. Originally published in as a Fawcett Gold Medal title, reprinted by Black Lizard in ’88 and due to be brought back out (as a 2-for-1, with another Dan J. Marlowe title) by Stark.
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