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As a professional hunter passes through a Central European country, he decides to sneak into the dictator's private compound and finds himself thrown in prison, enduring a harrowing escape, and fleeing through enemy territory to find safety in his native England.

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Main Author: Household, Geoffrey, 1900-1988
Other Authors: Nelson, Victoria (Writer of introduction)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : New York Review Books, ©2007.
Series:New York Review Books classics.
Subjects:
Hunters > Fiction.
England > Fiction.
Suspense fiction.
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Summary:As a professional hunter passes through a Central European country, he decides to sneak into the dictator's private compound and finds himself thrown in prison, enduring a harrowing escape, and fleeing through enemy territory to find safety in his native England.
Item Description:[Originally published: Boston : Little, Brown and Company, 1939].
Physical Description:xv, 182 pages ; 21 cm.
ISBN:9781590172438
1590172434
Author Notes:Geoffrey Household (1900--1988) was born in Bristol and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford. He worked all over the world, including Eastern Europe, the US, the Middle East and South America as, among other things, a banker, a salesman, and an encyclopedia writer. He served in British intelligence in World War II. His other works include A Rough Shoot, Watcher in the Shadows, Rogue Justice and an autobiography, Against the Wind .

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