De lefvande dödas klubb

Summary

A card-sharp on the brink of self-oblivion, Tom Haget, is lured by a wax-sealed billet into the candle-lit catacombs of the D.L.D.C.—a clandestine fraternity where despair is monetised and mortality raffled off nightly. Each member draws a ticket: the „winner“ earns the privilege of annihilation, while the rest must applaud. Parallel to this danse macabre, Lieutenant Dick Huntley—honour-bound courier of a king’s ransom—is hurled into amnesiac limbo after a hit-and-run, stripped of name, rank and cash. His odyssey through hospital wards and gutter hymns mirrors Haget’s descent into the club’s velvet abyss. When the two lost souls collide in a fog-choked alley, the lieutenant’s hunt for identity fuses with the gambler’s craving for finality, and the roulette wheel of fate spins faster, scattering bullets, banknotes and last confessions across a city that already smells of wet gravestones.

Synopsis

The suicidal gambler Tom Haget receives an invitation to the D.L.D.C. (The Living Dead Club), whose members apparently see it as their task to help each other to "end this empty earthly existence" according to a lottery system. At the same time, an acquaintance of Tom Haget, Lieutenant Dick Huntley, receives an assignment from his superiors to go to a distant destination with a large sum of money. However, Huntley is hit by a car, unconscious and without ID documents he ends up in a hospital, is reported missing, and it is widely suspected that he ran away with the money. Confused and desperate Huntley meets Haget and gets an invitation to the Living Dead Club.