# The Devil’s Game

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson/the-devils-game/9780575109261

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- Book: [The Devil’s Game](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson/the-devils-game) ([The Devil’s Game.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson/the-devils-game.md))
- Authors: [Poul Anderson](https://www.bookquiver.com/poul-anderson)
- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7510-926-1
- Published: 2011-09-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.