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Like so many others, Ramón Espejo ran from the poverty and hopelessness of the Third World to the promise of a new world—joining a host of like-minded workers and dreamers aboard one of the great starships of the mysterious, repulsive Enye. But the life he found on the far-off planet of São Paulo was no better than the one he had abandoned.
Tough, volatile, and angry—a luckless prospector hoping for that one rich strike that will make him wealthy—Ramón is content only when on his own out in the bush, far from the dirty, loud, bustling hive of humanity that he detests with sociopathic fervor. Then one night his rage and too much alcohol get the better of him, resulting in sudden bloodshed and a high-profile murder. Ramón is forced to flee into the wilderness for however long it will take for the furor to die down.
Here, mercifully, almost happily alone, Ramón is once again free. But while searching for his long-elusive lode, he stumbles upon something completely unexpected: a highly advanced alien race in hiding; fugitives like himself on a world not their own. Suddenly in possession of a powerful, dangerous secret, Ramón must battle for his freedom from alien captors and also against the hostile and unpredictable planet. And so the chase begins.
Police, fugitive aliens, and a human murderer weave a web of shifting alliances as Ramón enters the greatest manhunt the alien world of São Paulo has ever known. If he is to survive, Ramón must overcome inscrutable aliens and deadly predators, but his greatest enemy is himself. With every move in the desperate game, he struggles to outwit his enemies and solve the mystery of a murder he himself committed.
A rip-roaring adventure tale and character study of a fascinating and twisted mind, Hunter's Run showcases three masters of the form at their best.
“Suspenseful and absorbing.” (Romantic Times BOOKclub (4 stars))
“A remarkably smooth adventure with intriguing psychological underpinnings...suspenseful and unpretentious.” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)
“This novel provides solid escapism for those who love adventures on strange planets; the detailed descriptions of assorted aliens are especially fascinating.” (Lansing State Journal)
“This is smashing SF—a great manhunt story.” (Express)
“[A] tense interspecies battle of wits with tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom. A.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“[S]o sharp you have to be careful not to cut your fingers while turning the pages...HUNTER’S RUN is the sort of tense, what’s-gonna-happen-next battle of cultures and wits that keeps you guessing. And, perhaps, rekindles your childhood love of sci-fi.” (The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana))
“A remarkably smooth adventure with intriguing psychological underpinnings...suspenseful and unpretentious.” (San Francisco Chronicle Book Review)
“This novel provides solid escapism for those who love adventures on strange planets; the detailed descriptions of assorted aliens are especially fascinating.” (Lansing State Journal)
“This is smashing SF—a great manhunt story.” (Express)
“[A] tense interspecies battle of wits with tangy atmospherics and a bleak lesson on the meaning of freedom. A.” (Entertainment Weekly)
“[S]o sharp you have to be careful not to cut your fingers while turning the pages...HUNTER’S RUN is the sort of tense, what’s-gonna-happen-next battle of cultures and wits that keeps you guessing. And, perhaps, rekindles your childhood love of sci-fi.” (The Star Press (Muncie, Indiana))
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Hunter's Run
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Description du livre Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. Trade Paperback. 394 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Collins, UK, 2007. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are lightly tanned. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: A new benchmark in modern SF. A sharp, clever, funny morality tale that answers the biggest question of all: what makes us human? A fight in an alley behind a bar: a visiting European is knifed by local thug Ramon Espejo and all hell breaks loose. The dead man was a diplomat on an important mission to Sao Paulo, and next day Ramon is on the run heading north in his van toward land that no one has ever explored, or even thought of exploring, land so far only glimpsed from orbit during the first colony surveys. There are women still alive on Sao Paulo who can recall the initial descent onto an untouched world. All the cities of the south have bloomed since then, like mold on a Petri dish. Ramon was among the second wave of colonists. He's gone from being nothing in the hills of Mexico to being nothing on this strange alien world. His only friend Griego tells Ramon God meant him to be poor, or he wouldn't have made him so mean. Ramon's rage has never deserted him. It was there in the alley behind the bar, but he can't actually remember why he killed the European. Leaving all the hell and shit and sorrow of Diegotown behind, Ramon's plan is to look for minerals in the unmapped lands while the heat dies down. He's made a bare living prospecting so far, expecting each trip to be the big one that'll make him rich, and this one is no different. The first samples he blows out of the mountain, however, bring down the mountain upon him as well and a whole undiscovered alien race. Ramon is tethered to one of them and set to 'perform his function'. Whatever that means, he'll find out. And he'll remember why he killed the European. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy; ISBN: 0007260237. ISBN/EAN: 9780007260232. Inventory No: 13070136. The photo of this book is of the actual book for sale. N° de réf. du vendeur 13070136
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