Pride and Predator is a murder mystery set in Scotland where university archivist Ben Reese 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 Alamein, 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.