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005			20231009193436.0
008			130620t20071939nyu 000 0 eng
010			_a2007029491
020			_a9781590172438
050	0	0	_aPR6015.O7885 _bR68 2007
082	0	0	_aFIC HOU
100	1		_aHousehold, Geoffrey _d, 1900-1988
245	1	0	_aRogue male _c/ Geoffrey Household ; introduction by Victoria Nelson.
260			_aNew York _b: New York Review Books _c, 2007, c1939
300			_axv, 182 p. _c; 21 cm.
500			_a[Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1939].
520			_aA 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.
650		0	_aHunters _v--Fiction.
651			_aEngland _v--Fiction
655		7	_aSuspense fiction
942			_cMO
999			_c271313 _d271313