Deathwatch (edition 1983)

Even though it's been years since I've read this book I always keep coming back to it whenever I'm asked for a good read. It's suspenseful and horribly exciting and I love that it actually teaches good morals. Ben had a choice between doing what he knew was right and saving his own skin. It was literally a life or death decision and it was great to see that he made the right decision. Of course if he hadn't there would be no book to read.

This is one of my all-time favorites. A student acts as a game hunting guide to raise money for school. His client shoots an old prospector. When the guide wants to report the crime to the authorities, the client decides it would be more sporting to hunt the guide. Great suspense. What an evil villain! ( )

This book was really good. I didn't wan't to put it down ( )

Book talk:
When I agreed to guide Madec on his quest to hunt and kill a bighorn sheep, the fact that I didn't like him was overshadowed by my need for money. With the money he was going to pay me, I could pay for a semester of school, maybe even two. I couldn't understand why anyone would want to kill a bighorn; there aren't many of them left in the world. But it was all Madec could think about, killing a bighorn and having the head mounted to hang on the wall in his office in Los Angeles. But in the end, it was me he hunted. He took everything I would need to survive in the desert, and then I became the hunted. Why would he do this? It's simple really. I knew too much. ( )

I thought Deathwatch was a twisted novel with many suspense parts. The story takes place ina desert where two oppposite cahracters, Ben, a college student who is brave, determined and honest, takes a hunter named Madec who is disrespectful, dishonest and a liar, to search for big horn sheep. Madec accendentaly shoots a old man, who seemed lost in the desert, claiming that he thought it was a big horned sheep. After Madec finished hearing the answer "no" from his pleads to keep both their mouths quiet, Madec mkaes Ben strip to his boxers and leaves him in the desert with no food, water or clothes. It's a life and death situation for Ben. The watch ticks his life away as he attemps to save his own life. - Paige D. ( )