{"product_id":"hunters-trap-paperback-1","title":"Hunter's Trap - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eC. W. Smith\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es Trap\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith's fifth novel, he creates a brooding tale of psychological suspense set on the film noir landscape of James M. Cain and Jim Thompson. On the night of the vernal equniox 1930, Wilbur Smythe (a.k.a. Will Hunter) embarks on a plan to avenge the deaths of his wife and his employer, a wealthy Kiowa, both murdered by a banker greedy for the Kiowa's oil money. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA twentieth-century \"western\" blended with elements of Greek tragedy, \u003ci\u003eHunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es Trap\u003c\/i\u003e explores the textures of place and time, collision of cultures, and the thin margin between good and evil in members of the human family. \u003ci\u003eHunter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es Tra\u003c\/i\u003ep is a literary page turner that repays its readers from the first page to the last.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the night of the vernal equinox in 1930, the novel's protagonist, Wilbur Smythe, puts in motion his plan to avenge the deaths of his wife and his employer, a wealthy Kiowa, both murdered by a banker greedy for the Kiowa's oil money. Smythe intends to kidnap the banker's seventeen-year-old daughter, Sissy, and hold her hostage to torment her father before killing him. Hunter's Trap further explores the clash of values and cultures that formed the core of Smith's earlier novel based on historical events, Buffalo Nickel. In this new novel, he has written a blend of early twentieth-century \"western\" with Greek tragedy and has given the tension-filled story a sophisticated gloss of 1930s determinism and pre-Christian paganism, so that the horrific outcome of Smythe's plan to use the daughter of his nemesis has a fateful inevitability and a gruesome but implacable logic. Set largely in El Paso and its Mexican neighbor, Juarez, the story weaves together the strong political and social undercurrents of the Depression. Beneath its texture of place and time, however, the story reasserts the age-old wisdom of how thin the margin is between good and evil in members of the human \"family\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eC. W. Smith is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eThin Men of Haddam, Country Music, The Vestal Virgin Room\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBuffalo Nickel\u003c\/i\u003e as well as a collection of short stories--\u003ci\u003eLetters from the Horse Latitudes\u003c\/i\u003e--and the memoir, \u003ci\u003eUncle Dad\u003c\/i\u003e. He is professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.77 x 8.94 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 01, 1997\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53742636564787,"sku":"9780875651774","price":23.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/IDhgeEuxEy9780875651774_ee91b8f6-4db5-496d-b491-1337624eb772.webp?v=1785226172","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/hunters-trap-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}