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''Rogue Male'' (1939) by Geoffrey Household is a classic thriller novel of the 1930s. The book was reissued in 2007 with an introduction by Victoria Nelson.〔New York: NYRB Classics. ISBN 978-1-59017-243-8〕 ==Storyline== The protagonist, an unnamed British sportsman, sets out in the spring of 1938 to see if he can get an unnamed European dictator in the sights of his rifle. Supposedly interested only in the stalk for its own sake, he convinces himself that he does not intend to pull the trigger. Caught while taking aim by the dictator's secret service guards, he is tortured, thrown over a cliff and left for dead. But he comes to and manages to make his way to a port, where he succeeds in stowing away on an English ship bound for London. Once there, he discovers that agents of the unnamed country are aware he has escaped and are after him. He evades one by pushing him onto the live rail in the London Underground, after which the police launch a nationwide manhunt for the murderer. Unable to go to the British authorities, who cannot condone assassination of a head of state, and pursued both by agents of that state and by the police, he decides to go literally underground in Dorset. Reports that he has been sighted alert Quive-Smith, leader of the agents, who locates the hide and blocks the exit, leaving only a breathing hole. He wants his quarry alive. Trapped, the protagonist ponders on his predicament and confesses to himself that he would in fact have pulled the trigger, as revenge for the execution of his fiancée by the totalitarian régime. Constructing a makeshift catapult, he induces Quive-Smith to look into the breathing hole and shoots him dead. Taking Quive-Smith's papers, money and car, he drives to Liverpool and boards a ship for Tangier. From there he plans his second stalk, determined this time that he will not miss his target. Though never named in the book, which came out before the Second World War, the target clearly is Adolf Hitler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Rogue Male (novel)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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