Book #46: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“‘Why,’ he wondered aloud, ‘is the tiger so angry at him?’”
The second of John Vaillant’s works, The Tiger focuses on just that, a tiger. The story unfolds with Yuri Trush and his team investigating a crime in Russia’s boreal forest. Usually the team spends their time investigating crimes committed by humans against tigers. This time it was different. This time the tiger had done the killing.
Trush and his team assess the situation and determine that this tiger had been stalking Markov, the deceased, for days. The novel then goes on to examine the events leading up to the death of Markov as well as going into the reasons behind tiger poaching.
Throughout the novel the reader is enlightened into what life is like in this remote part of Russia that the world has forgotten. This really is a great book and I would encourage anyone to read it, and Vaillant’s other novel for that matter, The Golden Spruce. The way he turns seemingly boring subjects into full fledged novels is brilliant.
