Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
Hunter
Amazon US HC Amazon Canada HC
James Byron Huggins
Class/Genre: Mystery Thriller
Simon & Schuster, Jan 1999, $22.00, 320 pp.
In the vast wilderness areas of Alaska where there are no prying eyes or media around, the CIA has installed top secret facilities and conduct illegal biological tests. One particular experiment involves a scientist who injects himself with the DNA recovered from an ancestor of homo sapiens. The human converts into a creature that is more beast than man and kills everyone at three nearby military camps.
A military commando team is assembled with orders to kill the monster. However, the creature is so cunning, the soldiers fail. The military turn to a civilian to track down their prey. Hunter is an enigma as he is a wealthy recluse, who prefers to live off of the land. The monster instinctively knows that Hunter is dangerous and immediately tries to eliminate a deadly threat. Either the Hunter or the hunted will be dead by the time this scenario is finished.
HUNTER is a fun and enjoyable book to pass time on a nasty winter day. Think "Die Hard meets Frankenstein" relocated to Alaska and you have a pretty good assessment of both the throwback and the antihero. James Byron Huggins writes a tremendous, graphic thriller that is based on the principle that knowledge gained without morality is wrong, but does it in such a manner that it would make a good movie.
Harriet Klausner
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