Watcher in the Shadows

by Geoffrey Household

Book Overview

248 page hard cover novel by Geoffrey Household. It is the story of a manhunt, of a protracted duel fought out in London in the countryside of Sussex by two of the most accomplished and deadly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0316374288
• ISBN13: 9780316374286
• Release Date: January 1960
• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Duel

Ten years after the War, Charles Dennim lives quietly as a zoologist in rural England. On a quiet morning in May, his trip to the front door to gather the mail is interrupted by a bomb blast. Thus begins the most finely crafted chase novel in my reading experience. Mr. Dennim's unknown antagonist blames him for the death, in a German concentration camp, of his wife. What the bomber does not know is that Dennim - a Gestapo captain - worked secretly for the Allies to free specific prisoners. Household's writing in this book reveals his affection for the English countryside in the early '50s, and portrays a protagonist with as fine a sense of moral conduct as any I have ever read.

A little jewel of a thriller

A pity most of Household's books seem to be out of print. The best of them are elegant, thoughtful, and suspenseful, written with an economy that many of today's purveyors of bloated "epics" might well envy. Watcher is probably my favorite of them: concise, immaculately paced, and imbued with a precise and loving sense of place.

Absolutely amazing!

This is an amazing work of fiction that is impossible to put down before it is finished. If you have ever visited England in the summer you will appreciate Household's love of the countryside and the intense beauty of it. Household weaves together a story about a man who is forced to confront his past by an unknown stalker, and a beautiful woman who is struggling to find what she wants out of life. Nature, human and otherwise, figure strongly in this amazing story that defies catagorization.