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Title: To endure without object
Review: I read about Rogue Male in a men's magazine listing of recommended "action" books for guys. It was at the top, and having never heard of it I pursued it. It is a taught story full of amazing details about the eponymous protagonist's survival and planning as he manages to escape his staged suicide after an attempted assasination of a leader clearly based on Adolf Hitler. From his journey back to England from Poland to his hiding in an incredibly imagined catacomb of his own creation in Dorset, England, Household's language and eye for detail impress and terrify. Rogue Male was written in that memorable year, 1939-the same year Hitler invaded Poland and stands as a grounded and gritty precursor to that proud and bombastic Englishman the world knows well, Bond, James Bond.
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