Rampage

by Alan Caillou, Chris Lincoln (Illustrator)

Adapted into the Warner Brothers action/adventure motion picture of the same name starring Academy Award nominee Robert Mitchum and BAFTA Award Winner Jack Hawkins. The novel contains numerous additional scenes, subplots, and characters not depicted in the feature film. For fans of such films as The Ghost and the Darkness, and Beast.

RAMPAGE : Two renowned big-game hunters, a German Otto von Abart and American Harry Stanton, embark on a dangerous mission into the steaming jungles of Malaya. Their to capture prize specimens for the Munich Zoo in Germany. Neither man realizes that the trip is to prove the ordeal of their lives, an ordeal inflamed by the presence of von Abart's beautiful mistress Anna.

As the trio battle their way through the treacherous jungle, what began as a professional rivalry soon turns into a personal rivalry as well, and the two men engage in a strange combat that can end only with the destruction of one of them. Always between the two men is Anna watching, waiting as much the prize as is the black killer leopard both hunters pursue.

241 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1961

Reviews

[Catherine Lienhard]

The Eternal Triangle [love triangle] in the Malay jungle. The E.T. out to capture live animals for the Munich Zoo.

Rather ghastly ending--the escaped leopard killing families in an apartment house.

(read 9/20/67)

[Ian · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was published in 1961. Though the photo and cover on good reads has a 2000 publication date. A first edition in my collection was published 1961 by Appleton-Crofts, Inc.