The man survives, and with civilian help manages to make his way to a port, where he stows away on a British ship bound for London.

Caught while taking aim by officers of the dictator's secret police, he is tortured, thrown over a cliff, and left for dead. Supposedly interested only in the thrill of hunting a powerful man, he convinces himself that he does not intend to pull the trigger. The protagonist, an unnamed British sportsman and crack shot, sets out in the spring of 1938 to see if he can get an unnamed European dictator in the sights of his rifle. The book was reissued in 2007 with an introduction by Victoria Nelson. Household also published an autobiography, 'Against the Wind' (1958), and several collections of short stories, which he himself considered his best work.Rogue Male, by Geoffrey Household, is a classic thriller novel, published in 1939. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. During World War II, Household served in the Intelligence Corps in Romania and the Middle East. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce abroad, moving to the US in 1929. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978). Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce ab British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction.

British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction.

Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household