Twelve years earlier, this unrelenting story about an English aristocrat being pursued by resourceful foreign agents was published as part of the Crime Masterworks series alongside Dashiell Hammet, Arthur Conan Doyle and Jim Thompson.

Rogue Male was reissued this summer to mark the book’s 75th anniversary.

Household also published an autobiography, 'Against the Wind' (1958), and several collections of short stories, which he himself considered his best work.Geoffrey Household’s most famous novel is a period piece that exerts such a powerful grip on the contemporary reader it may well be the best crime thriller to be published in 2014. 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. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce ab British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction.

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