Soul Catcher, Frank Herbert
Soul Catcher, Frank Herbert
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Soul Catcher

Author: Frank Herbert

Narrator: Scott Brick

Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/15/2014

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction


Synopsis

Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped thirteen-year-old David Marshallthe son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to survive as teams of hunters try to track them. Even as he struggles to escape, David begins to feel a certain amount of respect for his captor. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspiredor simply insane. This tale of vengeance and sacrifice touches upon many Native American myths even as it reveals various truths in its antihero.

About Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert's speculative fictions have taken the grand themes and questions of politics, ecology, overpopulation, and much more and applied them to the human drama. His most popular works are the well-known Dune books: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, and the extraordinary bestseller God Emperor of Dune. He wrote more than twenty other works of fiction and nonfiction, including a book on home computers, before his death in 1986.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 16, 2021

Fans of Frank Herbert in general need to check their expectations at the door when picking up this novel. It is his only traditional fiction novel. That is to say, it is not a genre novel at all. Normally, this shouldn't mean diddly squat to readers, but the world being what it is, a lot of stupidity......more

Goodreads review by Bart on January 29, 2018

A few years ago, I decided to read the most important other Herbert novels before starting a reread of the Dune series. A review of Children Of Dune on the always thoughtful Gaping Blackbird, made me eager to start that reread. That review focuses on the Nietzschean inspiration of CoD, and it led to......more

Goodreads review by Rob on August 19, 2010

...The real controversy about Soul Catcher is probably the ending. In Dreamer of Dune (which mentions the end of the novel explicitly so if you don't want it spoiled read the novel first) Brian Herbert mentions Frank got a lot of responses either confirming the ending as something Katsuk would do or......more

Goodreads review by Janelle on October 03, 2023

Great writing and hard to put down. Nature and spirits, innocence and sacrifice, lots of ravens. A young Native American becomes the Soul Catcher after his sister is gang raped and then suicides. He kidnaps an innocent, a 13yo boy to sacrifice as statement for all the innocent indigenous lives taken......more

Goodreads review by Kate on May 24, 2009

Reading this I can clearly see why I fell in love with Dune in the seventh grade. Herbert write in The Soul Catcher a beautifully poignant modern day story of a young Native American man who kidnaps a white boy -- a privileged, innocent white boy. We follow their journey to the bitter end and still......more