Pride and Predator is set in Scotland where Ben is on sabbatical evaluating the collections in a medieval mansion house while working on research of his own. The story has to do with the Church of Scotland, the Battle of El Alemein, the habits of a potentially dangerous animal, as well as certain aspects of medicine, chemistry, the import-export business and the history of castles and country houses—as they relate to more than one death in the summer of '61.

Predator was fun to work on in Scotland, despite being chased by cows, mocked by a military historian, and spoken to with pointed severity by a disputatious "animal trainer." (The sad part is I suddenly can't find most of the pictures I took.)