The Most Dangerous Game
by Gavin Lyall
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'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 show more 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 show lessTags
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This book was purchased in a brown paper bag with the title saying "mystery". Not often do I run across a book that I really can't get into. I found the story boring. I did learn about aviation, a bit about espionage but not enough to get excited about. Can't give his more than 11/2 stars.
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- Original publication date
- 1964
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- 114
- Popularity
- 284,106
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- (3.28)
- Languages
- 5 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, German
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 13
- ASINs
- 9
