Whitehead's close friend and associate Mr. Whitehead lives in a state of paranoia that isn't explained away by just being a rich corporate magnate in the public eye, and there's something rather unwholesome about Whitehead's relationship with his daughter, Carys, who lives an isolated life and endures an untreated heroin addiction. Strauss settles in comfortably at Whitehead's compound and finds his job to be pleasantly cushy, but there's quite a bit that's off. In prison for a robbery he committed to pay off a gambling debt, the odds seem to finally turn in Marty Strauss's favor when he's offered a rare deal: he can work off the remainder of his prison sentence as a bodyguard for the eccentric billionaire Joseph Whitehead. It was published just after Barker had achieved commercial and critical success with his horror short story series The Books of Blood, making it one of his earliest works and his first novel. The Damnation Game is a 1985 horror novel by Clive Barker.
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