The Black Game
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The Black Game
A thriller about the dark era of the 1990s, when ordinary people became criminals
A gritty thriller set in the bloody 1990s depicting the dramatic fate of members of the underworld. Shortly after the Velvet Revolution, a grim period reigned - death was never far away and all kinds of filth thrived. In this atmosphere and new conditions, ordinary people, trying to make it big, they become bounty hunters, drug dealers, arms dealers, white-collar criminals or the first mafia bosses. They unwittingly drag their loved ones, wives and children into the dark spiral. While some are gaining more and more power, others are heading for an early end. The Black Game is a novel about a violent epoch and the people it swallowed up.
Slovak writer of the year 2014 in the most prestigious Martinus poll - Book of the Year!
Winner of the Ikar award for more than 100,000 copies sold!
The Golden Pen Literary Critic Award for the novel Black Game!
A gritty thriller from the early 1990s, which portrayed the period just after the revolution as realistically and ruthlessly as anyone in the Czech Republic has ever managed to do!
Jozef Karika
Jozef Karika (*1978) is a Slovak writer and journalist, a bestselling author who has sold more than 350,000 copies of his books in the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the biggest book poll in Slovakia - Martinus Book of the Year 2014 - he was ranked first among the TOP 5 authors, two years later he came second. He is a two-time winner of the Golden Pen Literary Critics' Prize for his novels The Abyss and The Black Game, an eight-time winner of the Golden Book Award and a three-time winner of the Platinum Book Award (for his novels In the Shadow of the Mafia, The Rift and The Abyss). The novel Fear became the best horror novel of 2017 in Poland, while Trhlina won the most prestigious Slovak reader's prize Anasoft litera in 2017. In 2019, director Peter Bebjak made a film of the same name based on this novel, which rewrote history in Slovakia with its attendance. In 2022, Argo published the author's novel Hunger. Thirst. In 2023, the horror film The Deep.
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