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{{Short description|2000 novel by James Alan Gardner}}
{{about||other novels|Hunted (disambiguation)#Literature}}
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| name         = Hunted
| title_orig   =
| translator   =
| image        = Hunted (Gardner novel).jpg
| caption      = First edition
| author       = [[James Alan Gardner]]
| cover_artist = [[Greg Bridges]]
| country      = [[Canada]]
| language     = English
| series       = [[League of Peoples]]
| genre        = [[Science fiction]]
| publisher    = [[Eos (publishers)|Eos]]
| release_date = 2000
| media_type   = Print ([[Hardcover]], [[Paperback]])
| pages        = 432
| isbn         = 978-0-380-80209-8
| congress= CPB Box no. 1862 vol. 6
| oclc= 44587573
| preceded_by  = [[Vigilant (novel)|Vigilant]]
| followed_by  =  [[Ascending]]
}}
'''''Hunted''''' is a [[science fiction]] novel written by Canadian author [[James Alan Gardner]], and published in the year 2000 by HarperCollins Publishers under its various imprints.<ref>HarperCollins, Avon Books, HarperCollins Canada, SFBC/Avon; paperback edition 2000, Eos Books.</ref> The novel is the fourth in Gardner's "[[League of Peoples]]" series, after ''[[Expendable]]'' (1997), ''[[Commitment Hour]]'' (1998), and ''[[Vigilant (novel)|Vigilant]]'' (1999).
==Synopsis==
When new Explorer Corps recruit Edward York arrives on board the starship ''Willow'', he abruptly becomes its sole survivor: everyone else simultaneously drops dead, executed by the near-omnipotent League of Peoples for violating its rule that anyone without sufficient respect for life is not allowed to travel between solar systems.
Alone on a ship full of corpses, Edward discovers a complex plot involving the alien Mandasars, in whose decades-long civil war he had a cryptic role.
==Reception==
At the ''[[SF Site]]'', Rich Horton considered it "a very fun novel to read" and a "compelling adventure story", but faulted it for overreliance on ''[[deus ex machina]]'' in its conclusion.<ref name=Horton>[https://www.sfsite.com/07b/hunt85.htm Hunted], reviewed by Rich Horton, at the [[SF Site]]; published 2000; retrieved July 9, 2017</ref>
==Footnotes==
{{Reflist}}
[[Category:2000 Canadian novels]]
[[Category:Novels by James Alan Gardner]]