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This is a jewel. I loved reading this! Far in the future, a hunter suddenly becomes hunted and must rely on the native traditions of his peoples in order to prevail!!! Wonderfully done!!! A+++ for Roger Zelazny!
When men can live forever, the hunter must stalk his own death!
William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo tracker on a future earth, has stocked the interstellar Life Institute with its most exotic creatures. But one of Singer's prizes preys upon his mind; a metamorph, the one-eyed shapeshifter Cat, whose home planet has been destroyed. Billy Singer offers Cat freedom to help him stop an alien assassin, and Cat accepts. The price: permission to hunt Billy himself after they capture the (other) alien. Billy accepts--and the deadly game begins. In a fierce, global hunt, Billy flees his extra-sentient killer. And suddenly, he is pursuing not life, but the mysteries of his people, and the blinding vision of his own primeval spirit.
William Blackhorse Singer, the last Navajo tracker on a future earth, has stocked the interstellar Life Institute with its most exotic creatures. But one of Singer's prizes preys upon his mind; a metamorph, the one-eyed shapeshifter Cat, whose home planet has been destroyed. Billy Singer offers Cat freedom to help him stop an alien assassin, and Cat accepts. The price: permission to hunt Billy himself after they capture the (other) alien. Billy accepts--and the deadly game begins. In a fierce, global hunt, Billy flees his extra-sentient killer. And suddenly, he is pursuing not life, but the mysteries of his people, and the blinding vision of his own primeval spirit.
