The Animal Catchers Author:Colin Willock Ted Maxwell's profession is animal catching. His task, when this story opens is to catch and deliver a herd of white rhinos to the national parks of a central African state. His outfit consists of some oddly assorted vehicles and some even more oddly assorted people. The people exist in a state of precarious antagnoism, held together simply by... more » the fact that for them, no otherway of life is thinkable. This applies equally to Nancy, Maxwell's wife who was crippled in an earlier catching adventure, to Webb, the young man with a genius for internal combustion engines and not much else; to Ryan, the Irish monkey-catcher roped in to save the safari from disater; and to Maxwells ward.. some say daugher..with whom all three men are physically, if not emotionally involved. And as though personal tensions were not enough to imperil the venture, the newly independant state in which they are working suddenly explodes into tribal warefare.« less