The Most Dangerous Game

Connell, Richard. The Most Dangerous Game. 1952. 48p. ISBN 978-1-58341-920-5. Available at FIC CON on the library shelves.

Sanger Rainsford is one of the world’s best hunters. He has hunted everything, from elephant to polar bear, and he has written several treatises on the subject. Finding himself in the Caribbean on a ship sailing to South America to hunt jaguar, he hears what sounds like a gunshot coming from afar. Straining to hear another sound, he accidentally falls into the sea and swims towards the sound he previously heard. As he nears the island, he hears more gunshots and the cries of pain of an animal he cannot recognize.

Landing on the island, he discovers a castle built by the shore. General Zaroff dwells within the walls. An eccentric Russian who fought in World War I, Zaroff’s passion, like that of Rainsford, is hunting. But Zaroff tired of hunting animals, which for him pose no challenges. No, now Zaroff hunts humans. And Rainsford the hunter is about to become the hunted ...