THE POKER GAME

Judge Leonard Kurtz presides over a Saturday-night poker game fifty weeks each year. , But this is no ordinary game&mdash,it begins at precisely seven p.m. and lasts exactly twelve hours, , and to sit at the table, each of the six players must have ten-thousand dollars in cash. But then, on , a warm summer night, five players are brutally murdered, victims of a single gunshot wound to , the head. Veteran homicide detective Jack Dantzler is faced with the task of finding the person&mdash,or , persons&mdash,responsible for the crime. His initial questions are, which of the victims was the , primary target, and what is the name of the missing player? Was that player lucky, or could he be , the killer? As Dantzler begins to peel away the many layers of this baffling case, the answers he , finds are not what he expected. They put him on several different paths, including one that will , bring him face to face with the only murderer he has failed to catch. The Poker Game proves once again why critics have consistently praised Tom Wallace , for his ability to &ldquo,make his characters come alive,&rdquo, while adding that he has done &ldquo,a great job of , creating a world-class detective in Dantzler.&rdquo, Simply put