Paperback, 160 pages
Who
doesn’t like a good Yeti book, anyway? Especially when the Yeti is an
invincible super monster who can travel from continent to continent and live
for thousands of years! Well, that’s the Yeti you get in this book.
Snowman starts out as a ripping horror
tale, with the Yeti settling into the California Mountains above a new,
exclusive ski resort. Gory killings happen. It seems like the whole thing was
going to be a satisfying “set ‘em up, knock ‘em down” slaughterfest, but the
resort’s money men think pretty quickly, and the middle of the book is more
about putting a group of Yeti hunters together than about bloodshed. Daniel
Bradford, the leader, who faced the Yeti in the Himalayas and (barely)
survived, builds his dream team and since money is not an issue, equips them
with some ass-kicking hardware.
So,
yeah, the book went from horror to high adventure half way through, but with
well rounded, if familiar characters (Bradford’s love-interest/ liaison to the
resort, the tenacious reporter, etc.) and an interesting monster, it’s all
good. I suggest saving this book for the warmer weather because when the crew
is up in the icy, thin air on the mountain, freezing their asses off, you feel
it!
This
book was first published in 1978 by Dell Books but, like me, you should hold
out until you find the New English Library edition with the nifty cover monster
cribbed from Terror in the Midnight Sun (Sweden, 1959). Snowman
is New York Times best-selling
author Bogner’s only novel that could be considered horror and it’s pretty durn
good.
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