THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME
Prix régulier 75,00 € TTC 6%
Characteristics
| Book cover finish | Canvas finish, Hardcover ( square back binding ) |
| Special features | Insert, Slightly damaged dust jacket, Second Impression |
| Condition | Old, like new |
| Number of pages | 255 |
| Published date | 1964 |
| Languages | English |
| Size | 14 x 20 x 3 cm |
| Author | Gavin Lyall |
| Editor | Hodder and Stoughton Ltd |
Description
In THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME the author deploys his remarkable talent at scene setting, hair - trigger dialogue and crisp story - telling to make this, his second adventure novel, outstanding in anyone's language. Set along the Russian border in Northern Finland, it is the story of Bill Cary who, like his amphibious plane, has seen better days. Now he flies surveys for mineral companies and pilots hunters around the remote forests of Lapland.
In the fag end of Summer, some strange characters start appearing north of the Artic Circle. There is a Virginian millionaire, potting his way with inexorable etiquette through the big game list. Why should his beautiful and expensive sister come all the way from the States to fetch him home ? There is the driver of the sixty - foot caravan, hardly built for cruising the Arctic Highway ; there is Judd, the timber buyer - but who would want to murder a timber buyer ? Why is Finnish Security asking questions about gold sovereigns ? Why should an experienced pilot crash on an familiar landing ? And who is the man in his veiled past whom Cary would like to see killed ? And just what is the " most dangerous game " ?
The answer comes among the roar of aircraft engines and the crash of gunfire in the primeval forests and lakes of Lapland, where the nearest human being may be fifty miles away - or waiting behind the next tree.
