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This not long after he orchestrated the media event of burning several million dollars worth of ivory tusks captured from poachers. Kenya political slogan Swa. Also, multicolored wrap around woman's garment Swa. From English quail Swa. Kyuke: Kikuyu. British slang laager: defensive wagon circle Af. Ngai: God Swa. Shetani: Satan Swa. Kenya political slogan from colonial days Swa. Mogadishu, I got Klingons. All that was left of downtown Mog.

Weed-chewing black men in oversized shirts and raggedy sarongs, loafing on bullet-pocked street corners: small game. Silent women in multihued robes, herding flocks of potbellied children and goats through stubs of cactus and piles of rotting garbage and empty cartridge casings: small game. A frizzy, emaciated black kid standing in the bed of a bouncing, swerving, junker pickup truck, hanging onto the ass end of a free-swinging heavy machine gun.

In any other war, the truck would have been target practice. In this one, it was light armor. A technical. As it fishtailed to a stop in mid-plaza, scattering the locals to cover, Mike tracked, zoomed, and focused, adjusting his aim point for a possible center-body shot on the kid.

Phaser lock. After all their years together, Mike knew exactly how he felt. All damn night, picking their way, shadow by shadow, from the safety of the waterfront, across the Green Line between the UN forces and Somali militia.

And for what? All Skinnies looked the same to him. Leather faces, stretched tight over snaggle-toothed skulls. Half-high and hungry. Just like 2Lt. The same way the Viet Cong had been Charlie. Intel believed this shattered, colonial era apartment complex to be some sort of Somali militia headquarters.

Until now. In hot weather it funneled sweat off his forehead into his shooting eye. Hell, he was barely even American.

A native Somali, only just out of his teens. Enough time Stateside to pass the citizenship test, pick up some Ebonics, and join the Army, where so far it looked like he was moving up through the ranks quicker than he would have in the Crips or Bloods.

Especially after Mig found out through the grapevine that the kid had been a buck-fucking private just the week before. Now Said turned his head to give Mike a look. He wore the same turban and sarong as a Skinny, a disguise so perfect that Mike himself was suddenly unsure which side the Somali was on. Before Mike could answer there was a commotion down in the plaza. He got his eye back to his scope in time to find three more fender-flapping technicals—the first must have been scouting for them—swerve into the plaza.

A regular goddamn Somali Rat Patrol, missing body panels and windshields but packing machine guns, full crews of AK-toting bandits, and even an old US-issue mm recoilless rifle, left over from the days when Somalia and Ethiopia traded superpower patrons like bubblegum cards. The convoy stopped in a cloud of dust. The Skinnies leaped down and spread out, sweeping the plaza and the surrounding rubble, as if anyone would dare challenge them.

But one man remained standing in the back of one of the trucks. Death on meth. The closest thing Somalia had to a national leader, Aziz unfortunately had a problem with foreign troops on his soil. Major policy error on his part. Mike shot him a look. From here I can keep a whole platoon pinned down. Aziz made a good target, standing in the truck, waving his arms and shouting orders. A woman was standing next to him now, no doubt the First Lady.

Something different about her. Mocha-colored, almond-eyed, wearing a very un-Somali leopard hide over her robes. What the hell was going on down there? Come back, Scotty.

Scotty, Spock! Goddamn it, Scotty, do you read? Aziz was calling the cowering civilians out of the surrounding rubble. Meanwhile his militiamen propped the staggering American up against one of the trucks. The skin had been ground off his chest and stomach, but in the scope his bloody face was still recognizable. The hell with rank. Said fumbled with the burst transmitter. Come in, Starfleet! Dead goddamn meat. Captain Koloth in command. The Klingons got Scotty, over. Likely they hold him for ransom.

Kidnapping big business in Mog. Down in the plaza Aziz, oblivious to the gun sight centered on him, looked to be telling the assembling populace what a mighty leader he was, as evidenced by the foolish American currently on display. It had evidently not occurred to the Somalis that a U. Hell, he was barely able to stand. His head lolled as his captors propped him up, tying his hands behind him.

Aziz had jumped down out of the truck. At his command, one of the mooryaan ran to fetch an old tire and a jerry can of fuel from the back of one of the trucks. In Somalia, gasoline was precious as water, and seeing the Skinnies prepare to use some made Mike sick. Passed out, thought Mike. Thank Christ. Because Mike knew what was coming. It was an old form of entertainment among Africans. We gotta do something now! Aziz had paused to brag to the crowd one last time.

His mistake. At that range, with the. Calm down, get control! But never one so important. Aziz had taken out a cheap Bic lighter and was trying to get a spark. Said would have moved close alongside him, staying low to keep below the lip of parapet. He moved his trigger hand well clear of the M Then he swung it all the way out, backhanding Said across the face. Cursing, Said fired. Half deafened, he grabbed Said by the shirt and continued his roll, pulling the kid over, across, and under him.

With Said pinned on his back, Mike head-butted him in the face. His eyelids flickered and he went limp. Mike scrambled off him, back behind the M24, searching with the scope for his target. The gas whoofed up with an orange flash and a rising black mushroom cloud, like a fuel-air explosive or a napalm canister dropped in an Iraqi trench. Aziz ducked away from the fireball.

Mike let him go. With horror he saw Mig come alive, wreathed in flame, trailing a plume of fire and black rubber smoke, staggering as he tried to buck the seething tire off.

Blazing gasoline sloshed onto his legs and flared up. Inside the flames his chest and shoulders and face were blistering and peeling, burning away. Almost six hundred yards away, Mike could hear him scream. He caromed blindly among the trucks, a horrific apparition not yet dead but already in hell, terrified Somalis flushing right and left out of the rubble.

In the moment it took Mike to ride the recoil and get his eye back to the scope, Mig went down on his side, the blazing tire holding his charred body in a terrible embrace, rocking him gently to sleep. Suddenly the plaza rang with the crackle of Somali gunfire. He worked the. Where was Aziz? The warlord and his African bitch were nowhere to be found. In the distance, over the ringing in his ear, Mike could hear the beating of the Delta Force Black Hawk, homing on their position.

The militiamen heard it, too, and leaped aboard the technicals, leaving Mig behind, aflame, forgotten. Said was rolling around on his back, holding his smashed nose and whining. Keeping his head down, Mike crawled over to him, drew his. Said looked up at him with wide, yellowed eyes.

My father Hassan Aziz. Everything fell into place. Another blast of bullets, heavy fifty-cals this time, shock waves cracking like rifle shots as they tore right through the building and kept on going out the other side. From the trucks down in the plaza came the slow stutter of heavy machine guns.

But by the sound of the truck engines—oncoming—they intended to take just enough time out from their escape to clean out the sniper hide. But even as his finger tightened on the trigger, a thunderbolt struck the building: a flash blinding in broad daylight, a noise like a rip in the planet. Sheer concussion blew Mike against the far wall. He woke up half-buried in pulverized brick and crumbled mortar, looking up through drifting white dust at bright blue sky.

The recoilless had blown the top off the building. But it had hit the wrong floor. Coughing up powdered plaster, Mike rolled over to see Aziz scrabbling out the doorway and down the rickety stairs. Painfully he pulled himself from the debris, fearing broken bones but finding only bruises. He grabbed his pistol, but the rifles were buried somewhere under the rubble.

No time to dig them out; the bazooka gunner would be reloading even now. Mike tumbled down the stairway in time to see Aziz, already out of pistol range, fleeing for safety among his fellow fucking Somalis. Ducking out the other way, he dodged along the rubble-clogged street toward the prearranged rendezvous with the Delta Force commandos.

A roiling, expanding cloud of sand and dust covered Mike as he scuttled toward the Green Line. He could hardly see where he was going. What the hell were we ever doing in Africa?

Was this what it was all about? Was this what they wanted? Some sick fucking game? Part one: The hunter. Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter's horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with formulae.

How meek the man is of no importance; somewhere in the pigeon chest of the clerk is still the vestigial remnant of the hunter's heart; somewhere in his nostrils the half-forgotten smell of blood. Robert Ruark Horn of the Hunter. Hemingway, Ruark, Capstick. Always turns out okay for our hero in the end. Overseer, tracker, guide, companion, general watcher of backs. Usually gut shot, as I recall, in order for our hero to have an opportunity to prove his manhood by trailing him into the thick stuff.

In addition to being a proven man eater. Not only healthy, but well and recently fed. But by the time the women had retrieved their men folk, away tending their cattle and camels, the cat had already dragged the girl away into the brush. The men had circled the thicket and found no tracks leading out. Now they all stood back, jabbering in Swahili, waiting for Mike to do their dirty work.

Though rustic, semi-nomadic, the Rendille claimed descent from Somali warriors of old. Mike despised them. The pugmarks in the dry dust of the lugga were large enough to make Mike think they might have been left by a small lioness, but the villagers said it was just a chui manjano mkubwa. Big yellow leopard. Matthew, however, was not only college educated but also native Kenyan, and the greatest authority on African wildlife Mike knew. There was something of the Egyptian in his fine-boned face, mocha-colored skin, and the way he knelt there on the trail, trying to figure the best way to kill a cat his ancestors had worshipped.

Call me an optimist. The truth was that, here on the verge of bearding the proverbial tiger in its lair, he was deliriously, pulse-poundingly happy.

This was a new experience for him. He hardly ever just wounded what he shot. I grew up stalking caribou, moose, the odd grizzly.

Rhodesia, Tanganyika. Kenya maybe. Let no one be under any misconceptions, least of all the KWS, lest they throw the lot of us in prison for poaching and some land-grabbing bureaucrat confiscates Kifaro Shamba. This is pest control, pure and simple. For all we know that poor little bibi is still alive. A skinny, toga-wrapped old mzee stepped from the clump of villagers to belabor Mike in pidgin Swahili.

He looked to Matthew, who spoke the grammatical Swahili of the Kenya coast. Besides their rifles, Matthew wore a big old British-era. The Rendille was packing nothing more menacing than a spindly spear and a notch-bladed panga , the typical, all-purpose Kenyan machete. Matthew shrugged. Matthew avoided their eyes. The old mzee stood facing Mike, the distance between them measurable not only in feet, but in ages. With a sword and spear in hand, this knock-kneed old camel driver could almost pass for a moran, a warrior.

Watch options. Storyline Edit. After their luxury cabin cruiser crashes on a reef, Bob Rainsford finds himself washed ashore on a remote island. He finds a fortress-like house, and the owner, Count Zaroff, seems to be quite welcoming. Apart from Zaroff's servant Ivan, the only other people present are Eve Trowbridge and her brother Martin, also survivors of their own shipwreck. Other survivors are missing, however, and Rainsford soon learns why.

Zaroff releases them into his jungle island and then hunts them down in his grisly outdoor chess game. Then after Martin disappears Bob realizes that he and Eve are to be the next pawns in Zaroff's deadly game. Action Adventure Horror Thriller. Did you know Edit. Trivia The trophy room scenes were much longer in the preview version of 78 minutes; there were more heads in jars. There was also an emaciated sailor, stuffed and mounted next to a tree where he was impaled by Zaroff's arrow, and another full-body figure stuffed, with the bodies of two of the hunting dogs mounted in a death grip.

Preview audiences cringed and shuddered at the head in the bottle and the mounted heads, but when they saw the mounted figures and heard Zaroff's dialog describing in detail how each man had died, they began heading for the exit - so these shots disappeared. Goofs The island is described by Rainsford as "small as a deer park," but it contains a dramatic waterfall.

Such a fall would have to have been fed by a large lake on a much larger island to flow at such a high volume. Quotes 'Doc' - Passenger on Yacht : I was thinking of the inconsistency of civilization.

Alternate versions The film was colorized in in honor of its 75th anniversary. Ray Harryhausen worked on the color design of the film. Connections Edited from Bird of Paradise User reviews Review. Top review. A Solid Little Thriller. A solid little thriller with several things going for it, "The Most Dangerous Game" easily holds your attention all the way through, even at the more predictable points. It takes good advantage of an often-used plot idea, without trying to squeeze too much out of it.

Banks's performance is a little on the eccentric side, but he has enough energy to make the character and the plot work most of the time. The opening sequence is a little slow, but it does set up some of the themes of the rest of the movie. The first half of the movie is generally predictable, yet even so it builds up a good amount of tension.

In the last half, the suspense is sustained quite well for an extended time, and though the last few scenes may lack plausibility, they work well dramatically because they were set up carefully. General managers usually jump at the opportunity to pay valuable players early in an attempt to get them at a discounted price. The Browns, on the other hand, have no such interest in a possible discount. Current reports state they are more interested in letting play out with Mayfield on his fifth-year option.

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