Hunting is already legal all over the world, and anyone who participates in it becomes a local celebrity. The heroine of the novel is only one murder away from the coveted status.
“The Tenth Victim” is a novel by Robert Sheckley, written in 1965. It is a novelization of the eponymous Italian film, which in turn was a free adaptation of Sheckley’s story “The Seventh Victim” (1953). At the same time, if “The Seventh Victim” is a fairly gloomy, one might even say noir, tale, then “The Tenth Victim” is an ironical-satirical story through and through—just look at the dialogues! In short, I categorically recommend it to owners of a good sense of humor!