The gripping true story of the hunt for a man-eating tiger across the forbidding landscape of Russia's Far East...

'The structure of Vaillant's nonfiction hunting tale echoes that of Moby-Dick, alternating a gripping chase narrative - the search, in the late 1990s, for a man-eating Amur tiger in the Primorye region on Russia's far eastern border - with dense explanations of the culture and ecology surrounding the chase.' - New York Times

'The Tiger also counts as a supreme example of true-crime writing driven by wide-angle empathy and compassion. Some readers may choose to shelve it, not among cosy wildlife yarns, but with Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.' - Boyd Tonkin, Independent

'This is an altogether different kind of manhunt story ... The pursuit culminates in a breathtaking stand-off of man versus cat in a forest clearing - a denouement every bit as explosive and surprising as the raid in Abbottabad earlier this week.' - Hampton Sides, Wall Street Journal

'A personal favourite of mine, an extraordinary account of a tracker on the trail of a Siberian man-eating tiger in 1997. Along the way we get a load of tiger facts and a beautiful portrait of a forbidding region. It is a stunning, lovely, lovely book.' - Bookseller

'extraordinary ... a brilliantly told tale of man and nature' - Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books

'a remarkable story, exceptionally well told.' - Financial Times

'The Tiger is the sort of book I very much like and rarely find. Humans are hard-wired to fear tigers, so this book will attract intense interest.' - Annie Proulx

'The Tiger takes us on a journey to the raw edge of civilization, to a world of vengeful cats and venal men, a world that, in Vaillant's brilliant telling, is simultaneously haunting and enchanting.' - Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers