As a boy, I read THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME by Richard Connell. This is a little thriller written in the 1920s. The villain is a big game hunter who has reached a point in his bloody career where he no longer finds regular animals satisfying prey. As a result, he has taken to hunting the most cunning animal he can find – Man. The hero of the story is the hunted. His job throughout the story is to outfox the villain. I was thinking about Connell’s story this morning as I was putting
Published on April 10, 2015 11:21