Household later confirmed in an interview that he intended it to be Hitler all along, but left open the possibility that it could have been Stalin too. Unlike the later films (and Operation Foxley, the secret SOE plan) in the book the assassin is not named, nor is his target. 1930-something: a professional hunter is passing through an unnamed Central. 90 Minutes RADIO DRAMA Broadcaster: BBC Radio 4 Broadcast: 1989 Starring Simon Cadell and David Googe. One is reminded of Frederick Forsyth's 'Day of the Jackal' as this book too goes into minute detail about how one might kill a world leader and get away with it. Buy a used copy of Rogue Male book by Geoffrey Household, Victoria Nelson. Rogue Male Based on the novel by Geoffrey Household Performed by a full cast 1 Broadcast Approx. It follows what happens to the assassin, who is a big game hunter, after he is captured by the dictator's guards, tortured and then escapes back to England. Household's book is a great story, far superior to John Buchan's thrillers like The 39 Steps. And three years after that, officers in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) drafted a plan to kill Hitler, seemingly based on this story. Two years later, anti-Nazi German director Fritz Lang - now exiled to Hollywood - filmed the story as 'Man Hunt'. In 1939, British writer Geoffrey Household imagined how a lone sniper might attempt to assassinate Adolf Hitler at his Bavarian vacation home near Berchtesgaden.
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