| Booktalk
#1
Madec hired Ben as a guide
when his name came up in the lottery for hunting a bighorn sheep.
Madec wasn’t a likable man, but Ben needed the money for college.
As Madec lined up his shot, Ben commented that he hadn’t seen any horns.
He didn’t think the sheep were still in the area Madec was targeting.
Madec took his shot and seemed confident he had taken down a
bighorn sheep. But as
they get closer to where the sheep should be, Madec starts to bargain with
Ben. He’ll double the money and offer a $100 bonus if it’s not the
perfect specimen and Ben is willing to look the other way and let Madec
keep hunting. When they finally reach the area where the dead sheep
should be, what Ben finds is a dead prospector. To Ben, it’s simple.
Take the body back to the
sheriff and report and accident. To Madec, it’s inconvenient to get
involved with the police. When Ben doesn’t listen to reason, Madec
forces Ben to strip to his shorts and sends him out into the desert to
die. (Mary Huebscher, Librarian, Holy Cross
High School, San Antonio, TX 78228 <marwood45@hotmail.com>)
Booktalk #2
Ben needed the money for college,
so he agreed to guide Maydec on a hunting trip into the desert for a bighorn
sheep. Ben quickly finds out that Maydec is not the kind of man that
he would choose for company. Maydec was a cold, wheeler-dealer obsessed
with the idea of having a bighorn sheep's head mounted for his L.A. office.
He was a man that was used to getting his way at all costs. Maydec
is loosing his patience and shoots at the first movement in the distance.
When Ben investigates, he discovers that Maydec has shot and killed an
old prospector. Maydec isn't about to report this and take his chances
in court that it will decided to be an accident. Ben doesn't want
to go along with this so Maydec strips him of his clothing and supplies
and gives him a head start. Now Ben is Maydec's target: a boy on
the run, wandering naked in the desert mountains without food and water,
hunted by a madman with a .358 Magnum. Read Deathwatch: It's Ben
last hunting expedition and the biggest mistake of his life. (Stacy Charlesbois,
Adult & Young Adult Services Librarian, charlesb@metronet.lib.mi.us,
Farmington Community Library, Farmington, Michigan) |
