Household, Geoffrey , 1900-1988

Rogue male / Geoffrey Household ; introduction by Victoria Nelson. - New York : New York Review Books , 2007, c1939 - xv, 182 p. ; 21 cm.

[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.

9781590172438

2007029491


Hunters----Fiction.


England----Fiction


Suspense fiction

PR6015.O7885 / R68 2007

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