A gripping story of man pitted against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator. Outside a remote village in Russia's Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a...
A gripping story of man pitted against nature's most fearsome and efficient predator. Outside a remote village in Russia's Far East a man-eating t...
Extraordinary The horrors of a single passage over the border blossom into a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the thirst to be free. NPR
A] heartbreaker Wrenching with a voice fresh and plangent enough to disarm resistance. Boston Globe
Fearless. Globe and Mail
Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers money for a mechanic and have not returned.
Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar s phone: Annimac....
Extraordinary The horrors of a single passage over the border blossom into a human history of sorrow and suffering, all of it beginning with the t...