Hunter

by James Byron Huggins

Book Overview

The world's keenest hunter, Hunter competes against a secret government agency to retrieve the half-human, half-animal product of illegal genetic experiments, a beast capable of unbounded destruction, from the icy north of the Arctic Circle.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684844613
• ISBN13: 9780684844619
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 428 Pages
• Weight: 1.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.6" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Highly Recommend

love this book!!!!, I own and I've read 5 times already....

Top of the line character

In Hunter, James Byron Huggins creates several outstanding characters. Two stand out, one is the title character, a tracker with out peer. The other is the creature he is tracking, a horror of rogue genetic tinkering. Obviuosly well researched, you come away with not only an enjoyment of a well written thriller, but an understanding of what trackers look for when going after something, be it a lost child or a siberian tiger.

Riveting! Smashing!! Terrific!!!

Awesome novel, though CAIN was way better! Byron Huggins has sort of written HUNTER while taking the idea previously used in CAIN, besides how many books of his will have gun-totting, meat eating, wolf-petting guys who play the "unwitting hero"?It was still a good read & a page turner.Am really happy to note that Sly Stallone is on this project, he deserve to be in a good flick!ADIOS

Fast paced, exciting, a pleasure to read!

After reading the reviews of others about this book I was tempted not to get it. Then I went to Borders and began to read it. I couldn't leave without buying it. Hunter and his beautiful wolf are what I would want protecting my back. Although there is plenty of action and chills, I didn't see the cursing and abundance of sex mentioned in some of the other reviews. Try reading a romance novel for that! Hunter is everything you would want to read if you are looking for a great horror novel. Now I will have to read Huggins other books!

A terrific book!!

I've read some of the other readers' comments and was surprised at the extent to which many voiced objections to Huggins' use of profanity and "illicit sex" in this book. Okay, so the guy has some terrific books that do not include bad language or any sexual scenes - so what?!? This is an action thriller, plain and simple, so what do you expect? And it isn't like there's tons of bad language, nor is the sex scene very explicit. And my gosh people, if you were one of the soldiers fighting this thing and had seen many of your comrades butchered in front of your eyes and all your weapons were useless against it, I can guarantee you'd be cussing a lot worse than any of the characters in the book did!! This book and Cain do share the Noble Hero-versus-Epitome of Evil Adversary, but most thrillers contain that anyway. It's a simple, good versus bad story and, in my opinion, very, very well done. I devoured this book as quickly as Luther cut a swathe through platoons of helpless soldiers!!

20+ years in the military and law enforcement - great book

After having seen more death and violence than most, certain realities stand out. James Byron Huggins has put words to some of those relaities. There are men and women motivated by "good", Hunter, and there are those who are trully evil in ways many can not understand. Huggins explains with action and words these two types of people. He reaffirms conclusions reached by many who have been in the fight. Thanks for a great book!