A Time of Predators (Otto Penzler Presents...)

by Joe Gores

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When a woman commits suicide after being tortured for witnessing a hate crime, her husband, Curt Halstead, despairs of obtaining help from the police and other legal avenues and decides to enter his wife's attackers' world as part of a plot for vengeance. Simultaneous. 15,000 first printing.

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The description of Paula’s rape is brutal. And devastating.

“He was going to find the boys who had raped Paula. Find them, break them, physically and spiritually. Make them crawl and grovel, mew with terror and pain. If the law couldn’t touch them, he would be his own predator.”

“And I’m saying that if a bunch of guys push another guy off a window ledge, they can’t blame him for whatever he does on the way down.”

Definitely a revenge tale, but a little more tempered and humane than the kind that I like. And definitely better than those four animals deserved.
four teen's gay bash and gang rape til stopped by husband of one of victims

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Joe Gores lives in Marin County, California. (Bowker Author Biography)

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Original title
A Time of Predators
Original publication date
1969

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Fiction and Literature, Mystery
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3557 .O75 .T56Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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