edit data. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'/5. by. Geoffrey Household. · Rating details · 4, ratings · reviews. Rogue Male is one of the classic thrillers of the 20th century. An Englishman plans to assassinate the dictator of a European country. But he is foiled at the last moment and falls into the hands of ruthless and inventive torturers/5(K). Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male is a classic thriller and a triumph of suspense. Described by Household as a “bastard offspring of Stevenson and Conrad,” the book is no less remarkable as an exploration of the lure of violence, the psychology of survivalism, and the call of the wild/5().
August's choice of read was Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. It is a short book of fewer than pages that reads well and is a thrilling page turner. Rogue Male tells the story of the anonymous narrator who is on the run from a sinister agency that has imprisoned and tortured him. Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good paperback copy "Rogue Male (Man Hunt)" by Geoffrey Household. 2nd Bantam Books printing 9 without a cover price. Previous owner stamp on front cover and blurb page. One spine indentation. Old price on blurb page. Tight and otherwise clean. Enjoy this, only the 9th, Bantam Book! For Sale. From a British first edition (third impression) of thriller writer Geoffrey Household's third novel, Rogue Male, we move on in this series of Household posts to his third-from-final novel - a book which is, in fact, a direct sequel to that hands-down classic, but published over forty years later: Rogue Justice originally appeared in
Rogue Male, written by Geoffrey Household and published in , is one of the first assassination novels told from the point of view of the assassin. Widely regarded as a classic, critics often mention it in lists of the top ten spy novels of all time, although really it’s more of a chase thriller. Warning: Major spoilers are blacked out like this [blackout]secret [/blackout]. edit data. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male is a classic thriller and a triumph of suspense. Described by Household as a “bastard offspring of Stevenson and Conrad,” the book is no less remarkable as an exploration of the lure of violence, the psychology of survivalism, and the call of the wild.
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