Synopses & Reviews
The story of a completely callous and amoral criminal, The Name of the Game is Death is Dan J. Marlowe's masterpiece. Earl Drake, Marlowe's toughest character, is a professional thief, a man with enough guts for three guys, enough lives for nine cats. Drake is "forced" into a life of crime due to what he preceives as the brutality and hoplessness of middle-class life. He is an extraordinarily sensitive and intelligent man with a point of view quite outside humanity's expected patterns.
Review
"Tensely plotted, forcefully written, and extraordinarily effective." New York Times