Name: The Lion Killer
Author: Jim Woods
ISBN: 9781413763461

Published:

May-2005
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Thriller
Pages:

240
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Lucas Mellor is a Texan and a big game hunter who was recruited by Danie Schwardt, an Afrikaner and safari outfitter, to serve as a hit man for the South African white-supremacist secret society, The Vengeurs (The Avengers). Lucas completes his assignment for The Vengeurs, assassinating an English attorney and black-rights advocate in one of South Africa's largest cosmopolitan cities. The hunter, Lucas, stalks his victim in the urban environment much as he stalks animal prey in the wild, but the killing doesn't stop there. An opportunity occurs for Lucas to rekindle his past love affair with Elena, who is on a final safari in support of her dying brother, Raphael. Elena tries to enlist Lucas in the mercy-killing of her brother, but Lucas refuses. Raphael does die in what is assumed to be a tragic accident. A subsequent turn of events causes Lucas to turn his assassination weapon on his former friend and hunting companion.