# The Night of the Hunter

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- Book: [The Night of the Hunter](https://www.bookquiver.com/davis-grubb/the-night-of-the-hunter) ([The Night of the Hunter.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/davis-grubb/the-night-of-the-hunter.md))
- Authors: [Davis Grubb](https://www.bookquiver.com/davis-grubb)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4164-042-5
- Pages: 256
- Published: 2023-07-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

'What kind of a man would have his fingers tattooed that way? ... What kind of a man? What kind of a preacher?' One of the great chase novels, The Night of the Hunter centres on the ferocious, unforgettable figure of Preacher, a psychopath who relentlessly pursues two children who may or may not know the secret of where the money from a bank raid is hidden. Set in a brilliantly rendered Depression-era American river town, Grubb's novel is both a study of innocence and evil and a savage picture of human failings as, one by one, the adults who have it in their power to protect the children fall for Preacher's wiles.