12/17/2023 0 Comments Monster hunter international book 7There is actually a tactical nuclear weapon involved. The solution to this, of course, is more and bigger guns. Political consistency is not a big factor in Correia's world.Įventually, after having some fun with vampires, werewolves, trailer park elves, and a clan of immigrant orcs, we get around to the main plot, in which a 500-year-old conquistador has come back from the grave and is going to end the world by summoning an Elder God. So basically, MHI is a bunch of mercenary contractors sucking at the government teat. So how exactly does MHI collect fat bounties for killing monsters? Because the bounties are all paid by the federal government. There is a particular irony here, in that MHI characters spend a lot of time getting on the author's favorite soapbox: the inefficiency and ineptitude of the federal government and how everything is better when motivated by free enterprise. Pitt then gets hassled by government Men In Black who explain that monsters are real and he'll be thrown in prison if he ever tells anyone, and then he's recruited by MHI, who unlike the authoritarian, bureaucratic, dumb-ass feds, actually get shit done and save the world and make lots of money in the process thanks to the wonders of the free market. I know Correia has claimed that Pitt is not an author self-insert, but come on. The protagonist, Owen Pitt, a former accountant who was also brought up by a crazy survivalist Marine father to be a killing machine, accidentally gets thrown into this world when his fat, incompetent, middle-aged boss werewolfs out and tries to eat him. Imagine White Wolf's World of Darkness (especially in later years, when they completely went off the rails), except where guns will trump supernatural powers more often than not. Correia is definitely a genre nerd and the MHI world is inhabited by the entire supernatural kitchen sink, most of it nasty and dangerous and all of it somehow kept secret from the mundanes. The namesake organization, Monster Hunter International, is a private company that hunts monsters. There is not a whole lot of plot for a book this size. ![]() However, I finally got around to this, the first book in the series, and while I still prefer the Grimnoir series, MHI is definitely fun, as long as you are down for lots of gun porn and the author's clumsy political pokes. A secret agency hunting supernatural creatures? Been there, done that, in many, many books and RPGs. I really liked Larry Correia's Grimnoir trilogy, but was less enthusiastic about his Monster Hunter International series. With the clock ticking towards Armageddon, Owen finds himself trapped between legions of undead minions, belligerent federal agents, a cryptic ghost who has taken up residence inside his head, and the cursed family of the woman he loves. Should the Cursed One succeed, it means the end of the world, and MHI is the only thing standing in his way. An ancient entity known as the Cursed One has returned to settle a centuries-old vendetta. It's actually a pretty sweet gig, except for one little problem. Monster Hunter International is the premier eradication company in the business. On the other side are the people who kill monsters for a living. Officially secret, some of them are evil, and some are just hungry. ![]() All the things from myth, legend, and B-movies are out there, waiting in the shadows. Five days after Owen Zastava Pitt pushed his insufferable boss out of a 14th story window, he woke up in the hospital with a scarred face, an unbelievable memory, and a job offer.
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