content: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, submitted for your consideration: "The Predators," by Mark Washburn and Robert Webb (Stein and Day, 1984). From the jacket blurb:"The fiercest creature in the sea is the Great White Shark. The fiercest creature on land is the Kodiak Brown Bear. What happens when they are doomed by human predators to fight each other in the fiercest specatator sport ever imagined?Can human perversity encompass a combat between a twenty-foot Great White and a two-thousand-pound Kodiak for the sake of entertainment? Big-time promoter Augie Zisk is certain it can, and when the scheme is first brought to him he says only one word: cable. Ten million people will pay to watch an exhibition on television, and General Hidalgo de Carazonzo will be happy to host the show in his banana republic."A neglected, and now hideously cannibalized, masterpiece.For shame, Mr. Bachelder. J'accuse!