Rogue Male
First Written 1939
Genre Fiction
Origin UK
Publisher Penguin
My Copy library copy
First Read March 4, 2025

Rogue Male

Notes

Asmodeus! This cat is a side character but has an INCREDIBLE story arc.

Noted on March 13, 2025

What a delight. Page turner, action packed, funny. Really reads like a spy movie. It's a tale of a British gentleman on the run, using his Sportsman Outdoorsiness while being hunted by Foreign Agents. A lot that rhymes with Riddle of the Sands, but this is much more exciting, and funny too. A+.

This has been on my list for a while, but it came up repeatedly in Ministry of Time, which nudged it up the list.

Noted on March 13, 2025

Quotes

My arrival was noticed only by a boy and girl, the inevitable boy and girl to be found in every dark corner of a great city. Better provision should be made for them - a Park of Temporary Affection, for example, from which lecherous clergymen and aged civil servants should be rigorously excluded.

Quoted on March 13, 2025

I must try to make my behavior intelligible. This confession - shall I call it? - is written to keep myself from brooding, to get down what happened in the order in which it happened. I am not content with myself. With this pencil and exercise book I hope to find some clarity. I create a second self, a man of the past by whom the man of the present may be measured.

Quoted on March 13, 2025

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