![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Cut to present-day Britain: Marty Strauss, imprisoned thief, is granted conditional parole he must serve as bodyguard for reclusive billionaire Joseph Whitehead. In a surrealistic prologue to the main action, a gambler/thief wanders through war-ravaged 1945 Warsaw, encountering mutilations and sexual atrocities before he reaches his destination, a game of cards with a mysterious figure. Barker has set horror fiction aflame with his liberal use of sex and gore-and this novel is no exception. The American publication of the first novel (of two to date) by the Britisher whom Stephen King calls ""the future of the horror genre."" That accolade sings the truth of Barker's two imaginative, soul-ripping American story collections, In the Flesh and The Inhuman Condition but this unwieldy, overplayed novel indicates that Barker's forte may be the short story, after all. ![]()
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