Paperback 1125: The Passion Hunters / Orrie Hunt (Domino Books 72-712)

 Paperback 1125: Domino Books 72-712 (PBO, 1964)

Title: The Passion Hunters    

Author: Orrie Hitt

Cover artist: Uncredited

Condition: 4-5/10

Value: $10

[Chapter 2 Books, Winona, MN (July 2025)]

Best things about this cover: 

• Gee, your nose smells terrific!
• "Kissing's when I talk into your nose, right?"
• She's gonna have to open her eyes if she ever wants their faces to line up properly
• It looks like it's raining exclusively in her bed and on his shirt, with some kind of green aurora borealis in the background
• I keep quickly glancing at the cover copy and seeing the phrase "mouth-open season," which, given the picture, seems right

Best things about this back cover: 

• Fair game! It's a pun! Because they are pretty ("fair") and you hunt them. Or else they are a game you play at a carnival booth, like the ring toss. He does seem to be trying to bend her body into some kind of shape, perhaps in order to win a giant stuffed animal. "I thought you liked me, Brad. What about that embrace at the carnival booth?" "I was just trying to bend you into a knot so I could win that panda!"
• I am shocked, shocked, I say, to find that this Orrie Hitt book doesn't seem to have much of a plot. He's going deer-hunting. But he wants sex and money. But he'll settle for sex. Hitt me!
• "A trio of torrid temptresses!" Somewhere, there's a dyad of dumpy dames going "Hey, what about us!?"

Page 123~

Getting over the beaver channels was the worst, and before I cleared the swamp I didn't have to continue worrying about dropping him. He was already dead, the knife still in his belly, and from there on down the mountain I was an undertaker without a license.

OK, technically this is from p. 122, but once I saw the phrase "Getting over the beaver channels," there was no turning back. You understand.

~RP

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