The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John Vaillant

Vaillant’s “magnificent” new nonfiction page-turner follows a Russian game warden as he tracks down a 600-pound Siberian tiger who has killed a poacher.

(Knopf, 329 pages, $26.95)

A 600-pound tiger is wanted for murder in John Vaillant’s “magnificent” new nonfiction page-turner, said John McMurtrie in the San Francisco Chronicle. We meet the book’s “sort of” hero, Russian game warden Yuri Trush, as he’s following tracks in the snow to a place where a tiger and a human seem to have waited for each other “as if meeting for an appointment.” Trush discovers boots nearby with stumps of bone sticking out. He also finds evidence that the tiger remains near. But the tiger isn’t the biggest danger in this tale. Vaillant has found a riveting story in which the very balance of nature is at stake.

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