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Rogue Male

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Rogue Male	comment	A classic 1939 thriller novel written by British author Geoffrey Household.A bored, upper-class British sportsman is found on the grounds of an unnamed European dictator's residence with his hunting rifle in hand, and subsequently arrested. His claim, maintained under torture, that he was stalking the dictator purely as an exercise in the skill of the hunt and that he had no intention of firing is so audacious that it is almost believed — but nonetheless he cannot be allowed to live. To execute such a well-connected Briton would cause an international incident, so his captors decide to kill him by throwing him over a cliff so that his body will show injuries consistent with accidental death. Though badly injured he survives and manages to make his way to the Channel and from there back to England. Where he discovers that home does not mean safety, nor an end to the pursuit.Adapted into the 1941 20th Century-Fox film Man Hunt, directed by Fritz Lang and starring Walter Pidgeon, Joan Bennett, George Sanders, John Carradine, and Roddy McDowall. A Made-for-TV Movie version under the original title was produced by The BBC in 1976, directed by Clive Donner and starring Peter O'Toole in the lead role.
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Rogue Male / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Rogue Male / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: From a desire to repress traumatic memories the main character is this.
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Rogue Male / int_1e2af48	type	Trapped in Villainy
Rogue Male / int_1e2af48	comment	Trapped in Villainy: The Swiss employee (though he doesn't seem to have resisted much).
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Rogue Male / int_34e15b76	type	Kindhearted Cat Lover
Rogue Male / int_34e15b76	comment	Kindhearted Cat Lover: In a distant, respectful way (and while living almost as a wild animal himself), the protagonist enters into a cautious friendship with a wild cat.
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Rogue Male / int_3f6d2c98	type	Cold Sniper
Rogue Male / int_3f6d2c98	comment	Cold Sniper: The unnamed protagonist thinks of himself as this, until, when in an apparently hopeless situation, he admits to himself that he has more personal and tragic motives that he had not allowed himself to think about - his lover (implied to be Jewish) was executed by the dictator.
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Rogue Male / int_45157041	type	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones
Rogue Male / int_45157041	comment	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: The protagonist appears to worry about this trope when the landlady of Johns, the agent he killed in Aldwych Station, mentions Johns' 'poor old mother' in press interviews. Subverted when this comment disappears from later editions of the press, suggesting the mother was a cover story for his work.
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Rogue Male / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Rogue Male / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Major Quive-Smith and the protagonist pretend to see each other this way. The mask sometimes slips for both of them.
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Rogue Male / int_53034c21	type	Great White Hunter
Rogue Male / int_53034c21	comment	Great White Hunter: The narrator's former hobby. Hunting the Most Dangerous Game: his current hobby at the start and end of the book.
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Rogue Male / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Rogue Male / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Despite the fact that the police had a rough idea of the location of the protagonist long before he knew they had traced his movements, he easily manages to evade pursuit several times, and sets a false trail for them to follow. They have no idea of his real identity. Quive-Smith, on the other hand, isn't fooled for a moment.
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Rogue Male / int_62ac3f93	type	Sinister Subway
Rogue Male / int_62ac3f93	comment	Sinister Subway / The London Underground: A fight to the death in a deserted tunnel of the now-disused Aldwych London Underground station ends with the "hideous, because domestic, sound of sizzling."
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Rogue Male / int_820ac351	type	It Amused Me
Rogue Male / int_820ac351	comment	It Amused Me: What the protagonist believes to be the reason for his assassination attempt. It's not until the final stages of the book that he admits to himself that he is really seeking revenge for his lover, killed by the dictatorship
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Rogue Male / int_8a752433	type	Improvised Catapult
Rogue Male / int_8a752433	comment	Improvised Catapult: Making savagely ironic use of materials provided by his enemies, namely the sinews and skin from the dead body of a cat of which he had been fond, killed by his pursuers and thrust into his dugout to torment him, the protagonist improvises a catapault to power a bolt of Laser-Guided Karma in Major Quive-Smith's direction.
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Rogue Male / int_8fcb5843	type	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted
Rogue Male / int_8fcb5843	comment	The Hunter Becomes the Hunted: And how. The main character goes from being a cool aristocrat stalking his prey with a rifle to being a hunted animal, literally driven to earth.
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Rogue Male / int_9b54d536	type	Evil Counterpart
Rogue Male / int_9b54d536	comment	Evil Counterpart: Major Quive-Smith, the agent assigned to hunt down the protagonist. As with the protagonist, we never hear his real name, although the protagonist eventually learns it. Like the protagonist, Quive-Smith comes from an aristocratic background, appears to have extensive experience of big game hunting, is multilingual, resourceful, and ruthless but cultured. The protagonist himself says: 'I have neither cruelty nor ambition, I think; but that is the only difference between Quive-Smith and myself.'
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Rogue Male / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Rogue Male / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Muller when the protagonist holds him at gunpoint after having killed Quive-Smith and escaped from his lair. He also exhibited 'all the involuntary reactions of panic'
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Rogue Male / int_b53c57d5	type	Epigraph
Rogue Male / int_b53c57d5	comment	Epigraph: As quoted above, describing the behaviour of rogue males among the animals that the protagonist is accustomed to hunt. It contains a Title Drop and foreshadows the cunning and ferocity that the solitary protagonist demonstrates in the story. A hint as to his motives is also given.
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Rogue Male / int_b9af5ef3	type	The Film of the Book
Rogue Male / int_b9af5ef3	comment	The Film of the Book: Twice made into a movie, by Fritz Lang as Man Hunt (1941) and a 1970s TV movie starring Peter O'Toole.
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Rogue Male / int_bd922dda	type	Gentleman Adventurer
Rogue Male / int_bd922dda	comment	Gentleman Adventurer: Complete with well-hidden higher motives.
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Rogue Male / int_c4240537	type	Moral Event Horizon
Rogue Male / int_c4240537	comment	Moral Event Horizon: The killing of the protagonist's lover by the unnamed dictatorship, leading to the events of the novel; Quive-Smith's slaughter of Asmodeus, which overcomes the protagonist's reluctance to kill again.
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Rogue Male / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
Rogue Male / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: The protagonist is unnamed.
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Rogue Male / int_f8f71b5f	type	Buried Alive
Rogue Male / int_f8f71b5f	comment	Buried Alive: How it looks as if the protagonist will end up when he is tracked down and trapped in his last bolt-hole, an earthen den scarcely bigger than a coffin.
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