THE HUNTER #1 Scavenger Kill (1975) by Ralph Hayes
Saturday, 1. July 2006, 13:13:56
Oh yeah this is the stuff. The Hunter is John Yard a former Green Beret who served in Viet Nam, retired when his great uncle died and left him a large inheritance.Yard became a hunter in Africa leading safaris of rich tourists to hunt animals. The story open with Yard on a hunting trip and his client has lung shot a lion. Yard follows the lion into a thorn patch and kills it becaus he knows that wounded lions are dangerous and need to be killed.
When he returns to camp he hears gun shots and discovers his friend Moses Ngala, a private eye in a gun battle with poachers. It appears the poachers might be working for Maurice Lavelle. (altough nothing comes of this information) Yard helps capture the poachers
Returning to camp, Yard receives a letter from his old army buddy Joe Algar. Joe is a broken man, his first child was affected by the drug Moricidin, and had no brain, scaly skin and claws. Joe's wife drowned the baby and jumped out of their 10th storey appartment.
Yard immediately flies out to his friend and discovers that Moricidin was developed by Maurice Pharmaceuticals owned by Maurice Lavelle. It appears that Lavelle knew about the side effects and bribed a FDA offical to let it on the market, just to make a quick buck. With the drug banned in Europe and America, Lavelle is now planning on peddling his drug in Asia and Africa.
Yard decides that Lavelle is like a wounded lion to dangerous to let live peddling his death drugs and along with Ngala they hunt down and kill the multimillionare.
Oh this is good stuff, if you can get hold of this series.
WIDGETIZE
Anonymous # 1. July 2006, 16:33
I have one of these somewhere, where The Hunter and some others, including a Chicom intelligence officer are in a plane crash and msut get through miles of swamp and jungle to get back to civilization.
AggressorBrad # 1. July 2006, 22:09
Brad
edwardpiercy # 13. July 2006, 22:11
AggressorBrad # 14. July 2006, 09:53
I have a great deal of fondess for the Hunter, the idea of a big game hunter taking on human predators is rather unique.
Brad