The Manhattan Hunt Club [Abridged, Audiobook] [CD]

NY地下の人狩り 衝撃のサスペンス疾走開始
冤罪で投獄直前に拉致され、地下で解放された青年。彼を追う武装した狩人たち。死の罠から逃れ、彼は己の無実を証明できるのか？ --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

無実の罪で投獄直前、拉致された青年ジェフ。解放されたのは広大なニューヨーク地下鉄構内だった。異常殺人犯とコンビを組まされたジェフに“ゲーム”の開始が告げられた―闇に閉ざされた迷路を駆ける彼らを完全武装の男たちが追う。冷酷な狩人たちの正体は?そしてジェフはこの絶望的な死地から脱出することができるのか。 --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。

In Manhattan Hunt Club John Saul plumbs the depths of the Manhattan underground--the network of subway tunnels and secret caverns and chambers where the homeless denizens of the city have created their own society. It's a world Jeff Converse, a young college student convicted of a crime he didn't commit, never knew existed until he is plunged into it after an "accident" that occurs while he is being transported to prison. He soon realizes that it's no accident, but the opening move in a deadly game being played by some of the city's most powerful men and women, a game in which he is the prey and they are the hunters. Jeff's only chance to make it to the surface and survive lies in allying himself with a homicidal maniac who's appointed himself the young man's protector, but whose designs on Jeff are almost as lethal as those of his enemies in the Manhattan Hunt Club.

Saul made his reputation in the horror genre, but he now focuses on psychological terrors rather than things that go bump in the night. His narrative gifts are displayed to great advantage in this heart-stopping thriller; the pacing is flawless and the central characters are very well developed. What keeps this from living up to its fullest potential is the inadequate motivation of the villains, who are largely one-dimensional cardboard cutouts. But that won't keep this otherwise topnotch thriller off the bestseller lists, where Saul (Nightshade, The Right Hand of Evil), like Stephen King, is a perennial contender for the number one spot. --Jane Adams
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Why mess with success? Twenty-four novels and 24 years down the road, Saul continues to deliver the same sleek pulp entertainment that he's been selling in high numbers since his debut with Suffer the Children in 1977. This time out, Saul sets his melodramatics mostly below the surface of Manhattan, in the tunnels populated by the homeless. Because of mistaken eyewitness testimony, Columbia University architecture student Jeff Converse has been convicted of attempted rape and attempted murder. En route to Rikers Island, the police van carrying Jeff is rammed, and Jeff is taken by a homeless man into the tunnels, only to be locked in a room with another prisoner, homicidal maniac Francis Jagger. Days later, Jeff and Jagger are released into the tunnels, told that if they make it to the outside world, they live; if they don't, they die. Eventually we learn that an elite group of Manhattan power brokers has created a club devoted to hunting convicted malefactors and having their bodies stuffed in the manner of big game trophies, using the underground homeless as beaters in the hunt. Meanwhile, Jeff's fiancＦ and father search desperately for Jeff, first above ground, then below. The novel builds suspense steadily, but reaches full steam only when Saul plunges his principals mercilessly into the stygian underworld of Manhattan. The premise of a Manhattan Hunt Club skirts absurdity, as do the villainous members of the club, but Saul scores points about society's treatment of the homeless. The prose is serviceable, the action rough, intense and often distasteful in other words, this is vintage Saul. (Aug.)Forecast: With major ad/promo, including a sample chapter in the mass market edition (June) of Saul's Nightshade, this will reach the author's fans. Expect many to travel with Saul into the nasty depths, only to breathe deeply as they look up from the book to a sandy beach and clean ocean waves.

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Four cassettes, 6 hours


When twenty-one year old NYU student Jeff Converse is convicted of a brutal rape and murder that he did not commit, his nightmare has just begun. Instead of being taken to prison, he is abducted and left in the dark network of tunnels that exist beneath Manhattan. Jeff is at the mercy of the secret society that controls this underground hell-the Manhattan Hunt Club,
an exclusive club near Wall Street whose membership includes many of the city's political and financial elite.



Bored with conventional sport, these members now pursue a much more challenging species of game. With a vicious killer as his only ally, Jeff quickly learns the simple rules to the game he has unwittingly begun to play: he will be turned loose in the tunnels and then hunted. If he reaches the surface, he is free. But if he's found, he faces a grisly death.



With this chilling descent into new depths of darkness, John Saul soars to new heights of suspenseful storytelling.

“HEART-OF-DARKNESS STORYTELLER SAUL WEAVES A CREEPY TALE OF MURDER, CORRUPTION, AND EVIL . . . It’s a hot tome for summer in the city.”
–People

“Long after you’ve finished this suspenseful cliffhanger of a book, the underground world that Saul creates will linger in the mind. . . . Saul takes us deep into that dark night of the soul and the subways in his frighteningly realistic and scarifying tale.”
–The Providence Sunday Journal


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John Saul is the author of such bestsellers as SUFFER THE CHILDREN, GUARDIAN, THE HOMING, THE GOD PROJECT, BLACK LIGHTENING, THE BLACKSTONE CHRONICLES, THE RIGHT HAND OF EVIL, and NIGHTSHADE. He divides his time between Seattle, Washington and Maui, Hawaii.

ソール,ジョン
1942年、カリフォルニア州パサデナ生まれ。1977年、第1長篇「暗い森の少女」を発表。「殉教者聖ペテロの会」「惨殺の女神」など、暗鬱な空気に満ちた独特の恐怖小説で名を馳せる

加賀山 卓朗
1962(昭和37)年、愛媛県生まれ。東京大学法学部卒業。英米文学翻訳家(本データはこの書籍が刊行された当時に掲載されていたものです) --このテキストは、絶版本またはこのタイトルには設定されていない版型に関連付けられています。