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Novel for children "For over 100 years Gallows Island Penitentiary has housed condemned convicts awaiting the hangman's noose. Yet now there is a new and terrible evil loose on the island. A mysterious creature who stalks and kills at will ... who evades all capture and efforts to bring it down. A wild beast that only one man alive can hunt and shoot. That man is Maxim Bunderbluss, greatest hunter of the age! But even he, with all his skill, soon discovers he is not the hunter but the hunted!"--Back cover Intermediate, junior secondary