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Rogue male / Geoffrey Household ; introduction by Victoria Nelson.

By:

Household, Geoffrey, , 1900-1988

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : New York Review Books , 2007, c1939Description: xv, 182 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9781590172438

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Suspense fiction

DDC classification:

FIC HOU

LOC classification:

PR6015.O7885 R68 2007

Summary: A professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator´s private compound. Security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territory to the safety of his native England. That safety is delusive and the hunter must flee society and go underground. The hunter becomes the hunted.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC HOU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		067291

[Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1939].

A professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central European country that is in the thrall of a vicious dictator. The hunter wonders whether he can penetrate undetected into the dictator´s private compound. Security catches up with him. Imprisoned, tortured, doomed to a painful death, the hunter makes an extraordinary and harrowing escape, fleeing through enemy territory to the safety of his native England. That safety is delusive and the hunter must flee society and go underground. The hunter becomes the hunted.

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