![]() ![]() ![]() Rogue Male is a magnificent novel and one of the best spy thrillers (or thrillers of any kind, come to think of it) that I have ever read. Household also published an autobiography, 'Against the Wind' (1958), and several collections of short stories, which he himself considered his best work. In his later years, he lived in Charlton, near Banbury, Oxfordshire, and died in Wardington. After the War he lived the life of a country gentleman and wrote. ![]() ![]() During World War II, Household served in the Intelligence Corps in Romania and the Middle East. in English from Magdalen College, Oxford, and between 19 worked in commerce abroad, moving to the US in 1929. Household's fast-paced story foreshadowed such international bestsellers as Richard Condon's thriller 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1959), Frederick Forsyth's 'The Day of the Jackal' (1971), and Ken Follett's 'Eye of the Needle' (1978). Among his best-know works is' Rogue Male' (1939), a suggestive story of a hunter who becomes the hunted, in 1941 filmed by Fritz Lang as 'Man Hunt'. Household's flight-and-chase novels, which show the influence of John Buchan, were often narrated in the first person by a gentleman-adventurer. British author of mostly thrillers, though among 37 books he also published children's fiction. ![]()
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