The Most Dangerous Game
Published on 28. March 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-1-4482-0036-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Cary is great with a gun and deadpan about danger' Spectator
Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past.
The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award.
'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week
Bill Cary makes a precarious living flying aerial surveys over Lapland. When he's hired by a wealthy American hunter, Frederick Wells Homer, to fly into a prohibited part of Finland near the Soviet border, the job seems shady indeed, and when a major crook wants him to go on the hunt for Tsarist treasure, things get messy. With thugs and the Finnish Secret Service already on his tail, matters get worse when Homer's beautiful sister turns up to search for him, and Cary's fellow bush pilots start getting killed off in a series of suspicious accidents. Cary begins to realise that it may all stem from an incident in his wartime past.
The Most Dangerous Game was shortlisted for the British Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award.
'A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade' Book Week
Reviews / Votes
Lyall has produced a model of the breathtaking narrative in The Most Dangerous Game...[he] writes with zest and bite; he is a master of the rare art of storytelling. -- Anthony Boucher * New York Times Book Review * A glorious tale, vivid in character and escapade. * Book Week * Carey is great with a gun and deadpan about danger as he weaves through prohibited territory, eluding bears and crooks and radar in his beat-up old aeroplane. * The Spectator *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 153 mm
Weight
316 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4482-0036-8 (9781448200368)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Gavin Lyall (1932-2003) lived in Hampstead and enjoyed sailing on the Thames in his motor cruiser. From 1959 to 1962 he was a newspaper reporter and the aviation correspondent for the Sunday Times. His first novel, The Wrong Side of the Sky, was published in 1961, drawing from his personal experiences in the Libyan Desert and in Greece. Lyall left journalism in 1963 to become a full-time author, writing 17 novels before his death in 2003.