“This simply has to be one of the best ‘reads’ I will have in 2008. Here’s what one of the commenters on the torrent thread said about it: I’ve never read a story that depicts what it’s like to stalk an animal (be it human or otherwise) better than this novel does.
This is essentially a hunting story, rather than a spy story, so it is more singularly focused on those themes and less externalized. One thing that Rogue Male has, that those others lack, is a nice human-animal friendship. It’s not unlike Ken Follett‘s Eye Of The Needle or The Eagle Has Landed by Jack Higgins – it’s that good. It has a feel of a historical novel – giving you a sense of the time and the culture – whilst also meditating on the human mind – especially decision making. It holds your attention with a combination of great narration (by Michael Jayston), excellent writing (by Geoffrey Household) and historical relevance. It’s totally gripping from the first sentence on. I’ve just finished listening to it and I highly recommend it! Then there was a 1976 TV-movie version starring Peter O’Toole (I also recall seeing it advertised as airing on A&E television network back in the 1990s)….Īnd lastly, in the video department, there was a 1941 film version (directed by Fritz Lang) put out under the title Man Hunt…Īs to the audio, I did a search of that handy dandy resource and found there a lovely UNABRIDGED reading of Rogue Male, a novel that was commissioned (and recently re-aired) on BBC Radio 7. That’s a very strong recommendation in itself. Said Morrell: “When I started First Blood back in 1968, I was deeply influenced by Geoffrey Household’s Rogue Male.” I shall not get away alive, but I shall not miss and that is all that matters to me any longer.” – Rogue Maleīut as to the legacy – let me offer these…įirst up we need to consider in reverse chronological order David Morrell‘s 1972 novel, First Blood, and the subsequent movie of the same name. Chimney pots should be the cover, and the method, snapshots at two hundred yards. “One should always hunt an animal in its natural habitat and the natural habitat of man is – in these days – a town. Indeed, this is a novel with a similar legacy to that of Richard Connell’s short story.
So in following up on that terrific new dramatization of The Most Dangerous Game, you know the one I told you about the other day, I’ve come across a novel with a similar theme.
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