We find our hero, a man whose name was never revealed to us, in a jam. The influences on the Fleming creation are readily apparent. Rogue Male was published in 1939 and Ian Fleming did not release the first Bond until 1953, but I can’t imagine that Fleming did not read this book. In other words the guy is Bond before James Bond existed. The copy I read was a Folio Edition filled with wonderful art work. I was conditioned to endure without making an ass of myself.”

We torture a boy’s spirit rather than his body, but all torture is, in the end, directed at the spirit. It lasted only a day and a night, whereas the initiation ceremonies of the tribal English continue for the ten years of education. I have been through an initiation ceremony on the Rio Javary-the only way I could persuade them to teach me how their men can exercise a slight muscular control over haemorrhage-and I thought it more a disagreeable experience than any proof maturity. ”I hold no brief for the pre-war spartan training of the english upper class-or middle class as it is now the fashion to call it, leaving the upper to the angels-since in the ordinary affairs of a conventional life it is not of the slightest value to anyone but it is of use on the admittedly rare occasions when one needs a high degree of physical endurance. Household also published an autobiography, 'Against the Wind' (1958), and several collections of short stories, which he himself considered his best work. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. During World War II, Household served in the Intelligence Corps in Romania and the Middle East. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce abroad, moving to the US in 1929. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978). Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction.

Rogue male by geoffrey household