Raven is an ugly man dedicated to ugly deeds. His cold-blooded killing of a European Minister of War is an act of violence with chilling repercussions, not just for Raven himself but for the nation as a whole. The money he receives in payment for the murder is made up of stolen notes. When the first of these is traced, Raven is a man on the run. As he tracks down the agent who has been double-crossing him and attempts to elude the police, he becomes both hunter and hunted: an unwitting weapon of a strange kind of social justice.
作者簡介
Samuel Hynes is Woodrow Wilson Professor of Literature Emeritus at Princeton University. He has edited Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier and E. E. Cummings’s The Enormous Room for Penguin Classics.