Showing posts with label Rogue Male. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rogue Male. Show all posts

Monday, January 12, 2009

Geoffrey Household's Rogue Male this week on BBC Radio 7.

Geoffrey Household's nail-biting tale of a British hunter who takes a potshot at a European dictator (read Hitler) and then is pursued relentlessly is featured this week on BBC Radio 7, along with Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia. Go here for the schedule or to listen.

Sunday, October 28, 2007

Rogue Male Recaptured.

I was delighted to discover, after only finding tattered used copies available, that the New York Review of Books Classics will reissue Rogue Male (1939) by Geoffrey Household on Nov 6. This classic work of suspense deals with a big-game hunter who tries to kill a dictator (read Hitler) and is in turn hunted.

Household, pseudonym of Edward West (1900-1988), was an intelligence officer during World War II. His other thrillers include Watcher in the Shadows (1960) and Dance of the Dwarfs (1968). He also wrote short stories and works for children.

Film versions of Rogue Male include Man Hunt (1941; dir. Fritz Lang) with Walter Pidgeon and Rogue Male (1976) with Peter O'Toole.