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[Thirtieschild]

telling you about my husband's novel. It tells the story of a man-eating tiger loose in the mountains of North Georgia and the bond the tiger forms with a small boy. The heart of the book is the struggle for the boy's soul between the tiger, who is trying to teach him what it means to be a tiger, and an aging hunter, who is trying to teach him what it means to be a man. The tiger is sympathetic - we got a call from a man in Oklahoma who had just lost a much loved horse to a mountain lion. The horse had died with its head in the man's lap; he was filled with vengeance and above all wanted to track the lion and kill it. Reading the book was an epiphany - he said he now not only understood the kill from the lion's point of view but also felt compassion for it.

The hunter is based on - and the book is dedicated in part to - Jim Corbett, a legendary conservationist and hunter of man-eating tigers in India.

The novel was published in hardback as SHIKAR ("hunt" in India) and has just come out in paperback as MANEATER. Author is Jack Warner (www.jack-warner.com), paperback publisher is I-Books, ISBN # is 1-59687-166-0. (The hardback is available on Amazon for something like $2.)

Edited for grammar

[sasha031]

1. out of line, what a story...thank you it will be a must read

:)

[Thirtieschild]

2. Thanks for the encouragement

Hope you enjoy it.