![]() ![]() Household later confirmed in an interview that he intended it to be Hitler all along, but left open the possibility that it could have been Stalin too. and the narrator of Geoffrey Households novel Rogue Male, a bored and wealthy. This year marks the 80th anniversary of Geoffrey Household’s classic 1939 novel Rogue Male, a tense and taut thriller complete with failed assassinations, desperate escapes, a relentless pursuit, psychological trauma and a hero who spends much of the book’s second half literally hiding like a hunted animal in a hole in the ground. Unlike the later films (and Operation Foxley, the secret SOE plan) in the book the assassin is not named, nor is his target. Clive Unger-Hamilton on Geoffrey Household, Rogue Male The word. One is reminded of Frederick Forsyth's 'Day of the Jackal' as this book too goes into minute detail about how one might kill a world leader and get away with it. ![]() It follows what happens to the assassin, who is a big game hunter, after he is captured by the dictator's guards, tortured and then escapes back to England. ![]() Household's book is a great story, far superior to John Buchan's thrillers like The 39 Steps. And three years after that, officers in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) drafted a plan to kill Hitler, seemingly based on this story. Two years later, anti-Nazi German director Fritz Lang - now exiled to Hollywood - filmed the story as 'Man Hunt'. In 1939, British writer Geoffrey Household imagined how a lone sniper might attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at his Bavarian vacation home near Berchtesgaden. ![]()
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