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Atrocity Week
WOULD YOU DARE TO TAKE THE ULTIMATE TEST?
Imagine you’re wealthy enough to do just about any damn thing you want. Imagine you’ve bought all the kicks you can think of. EXCEPT MAYBE ONE. The ultimate thrill. The thrill of hunting down and killing the biggest, most dangerous game of all: MAN.
Imagine that somewhere – probably in Africa where life is lived at the outer limits of survival – there are two men (both ex-mercenaries) who are happy to arrange this kind of slaughter-safari for you. For a hefty price, naturally.
Imagine all this – and you’ve barely imagined the start-point of probably the most savagely, bloodily violent story ever written. ATROCITY WEEK a reading experience you will never forget. Never…
Imagine you’re wealthy enough to do just about any damn thing you want. Imagine you’ve bought all the kicks you can think of. EXCEPT MAYBE ONE. The ultimate thrill. The thrill of hunting down and killing the biggest, most dangerous game of all: MAN.
Imagine that somewhere – probably in Africa where life is lived at the outer limits of survival – there are two men (both ex-mercenaries) who are happy to arrange this kind of slaughter-safari for you. For a hefty price, naturally.
Imagine all this – and you’ve barely imagined the start-point of probably the most savagely, bloodily violent story ever written. ATROCITY WEEK a reading experience you will never forget. Never…
348 pages, Paperback
First published June 29, 1978
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Andrew McCoy
19 books10 followersI keep animals. I write thrillers. Several have been popular enough with readers to be bestsellers. Some have been so unpopular with the apartheid government in South Africa that they sent assassins after me. CoolMain Press is reissuing all my novels, and publishing two new Lance Weber novels, and a new Rocco Burger novel as well. I co-authored the literary biography of STIEG LARSON Man, Myth & Mistress with André Jute. That was a different sort of fun. I also co-authored GAUNTLET RUN, a disutopian road thriller, with André Jute and Dakota Franklin. That was a hoot! It's available free from the usual sources.
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July 18, 2016
Gritty, cruel, violent and very believable . An immersive story line with characters so real you can literally see them interacting in your minds eye. Not for the sensitive reader. One of the best I have read and very difficult to take a break from once you start...
September 30, 2016
2.5 Stars
This was a book I had picked as a second-hand copy from the roadside vendor around fifteen years ago while I was involved a lot in reading thriller and war stories: the stuff of violence and killing. However it remained unread for a long time until now. After growing out of the interest mentioned above, while I was about to discard this book unread, I had to keep it to read it out of my slight now growing interest in fiction based in Africa and the fact that the story in here was based on real happenings in that continent.
"Hunting Niggers for Sport" is the central theme of this book: something it seems that used to happen in Africa. Personally I was not aware of this until I had given proper attention to the book; neither am I aware of this whether it could be happening somewhere in that continent, now. I doubt it; but we are humans and it is not not-possible.
The book narrates like a thriller and adventure in hunting. No parts of the narration gives any factual knowledge or commentaries of the racist perceptions of ideas like 'whites' and 'blacks'. It was an interesting read, considering it was based on real events in history. However, the narration simply reads just like any other thriller/adventure novel.
As the title says, the book does contain several long scenes of atrocities on humans and a few animals, including some graphical descriptions of gore and mutilation. Readers who should be very sensitive need not read this one.
This was a book I had picked as a second-hand copy from the roadside vendor around fifteen years ago while I was involved a lot in reading thriller and war stories: the stuff of violence and killing. However it remained unread for a long time until now. After growing out of the interest mentioned above, while I was about to discard this book unread, I had to keep it to read it out of my slight now growing interest in fiction based in Africa and the fact that the story in here was based on real happenings in that continent.
"Hunting Niggers for Sport" is the central theme of this book: something it seems that used to happen in Africa. Personally I was not aware of this until I had given proper attention to the book; neither am I aware of this whether it could be happening somewhere in that continent, now. I doubt it; but we are humans and it is not not-possible.
The book narrates like a thriller and adventure in hunting. No parts of the narration gives any factual knowledge or commentaries of the racist perceptions of ideas like 'whites' and 'blacks'. It was an interesting read, considering it was based on real events in history. However, the narration simply reads just like any other thriller/adventure novel.
As the title says, the book does contain several long scenes of atrocities on humans and a few animals, including some graphical descriptions of gore and mutilation. Readers who should be very sensitive need not read this one.
January 22, 2018
Africa (in about the 1970s, perhaps) at its most terrifying, and the willfully blind men who choose to vacation there for kicks.
Lots of horrific violence; explicit sexual acts; and scenes of mutilation, death, and gore. No good guys, though there are men of whom much is admirable, and plenty of bad guys.
I liked Atrocity Week a lot, and I will be rereading it often in the years to come. A raw and very masculine sort of book.
The only thing I was really doubted was the scene with the baboon. Would a baboon really do that? It seems counterintuitive, but I know nothing of baboons.
If it matters, it reminded me some of A Feast Unknown by Philip Jose Farmer. That's high praise coming from me.
July 12, 2011
I read this book not knowing what to expect. It is one of the very few books I remember vividly as a younger man. It was brutal and fixating at the same time. I got the feeling that is was based on fact and also know it was banned in a lot countries. I was a tough read with regards to the brutality and the fact that if you have enough money, nothing is off limits.
April 24, 2020
A very straightforward book presented with raw relish.
Things to note would be very accurate descriptions of geography and that sinister declaration from author in begening that what's in the book, has more or less happened.
This is so gory and violent that it has a ring of truth in it. Apart from premise the technicalities are spot on thru out the book. It's a "Hard to put down once picked" kind of book.
The baboon episode is very disturbing and is very explicitly put.
Some stereotypes and some very well developed characters.
It's your typical on the face Africa book with a premise that's not for the weak stomach.
Pun very much intended.
Things to note would be very accurate descriptions of geography and that sinister declaration from author in begening that what's in the book, has more or less happened.
This is so gory and violent that it has a ring of truth in it. Apart from premise the technicalities are spot on thru out the book. It's a "Hard to put down once picked" kind of book.
The baboon episode is very disturbing and is very explicitly put.
Some stereotypes and some very well developed characters.
It's your typical on the face Africa book with a premise that's not for the weak stomach.
Pun very much intended.
January 1, 2012
Not for the faint hearted but excellent book
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April 13, 2016This book is fucked.
That's all I have to say about that.
That's all I have to say about that.
July 7, 2022
It's The most Dangerous Game meets The Wild Bunch very brutal and realistic with two savage rapes thrown in with one leading to seppuku all the main characters are despicable although a few show some humanity. This book is full of violence brutality and depravity no fear of a movie or a series made from this classic 70's men's paperback because nobody not even Tarantino would touch this with a 12 foot pool and if you take out all the fun stuff you'd only have the beginning and end.
September 22, 2023
honestly with a cover and blurb like that i was expecting even more violence. it only really kicks off on the final day with an addition to the narrative i certainly wouldn't have predicted before reading.
April 5, 2023
I read this book in fifth grade and it blew my mind as to just how depraved man can get in order to get that ultimate thrill. It's the Wild Bunch meets the Most Dangerous Game none of the main characters come out smelling like a rose they're either killed by each other or tribal justice or in the case of the terrorist Jomo Iniguwe winds up with egg on his face as I said in my Amazon review don't hold your breath waiting for a movie to be made because I don't any one in todays Hollywood that would touch it with a twenty foot pole.
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