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HIGH HUNT

David Eddings



BALLANTINE BOOKS тАв NEW YORK

Copyright ┬й 1973 by David Eddings

This edition contains the complete text of the original hardcover edition.

All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions, including the right to
reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books,
a division of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of
Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 72-87613 ISBN 0-345-32887-6

All the characters in this book are fictitious, and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is
purely coincidental.

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Ballantine Books Edition: March 1986 Third Printing April 1990




For JUFELEE

The more things change

The more they remain the same.




Prologue
 When we were boys, before we lost him and before my brother and I turned away from each other, my
father once told us a story about our grandfather and a dog. We were living in Tacoma then, in one of the
battered, sagging, rented houses that stretch back in my memory and mark the outlines of a childhood
spent unknowingly on the bare upper edge of poverty. Jack and I knew that we weren't rich, but it didn't
really bother us all that much. Dad worked in a lumber mill and just couldn't seem to get ahead of the
bills. And, of course, Mom being the way she was didn't help much either.

It had been a raw, blustery Saturday, and Jack and I had spent the day outside. Mom was off
someplace as usual, and Dad was supposed to be watching us. About all he'd done had been to feed us
and tell us to stay the hell out of trouble or he'd bite off our ears. He always said stuff like that, but we
were pretty sure he didn't really mean it.