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Maneater

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How this novel escaped wider attention is simply beyond me. Jack Warner delivers a brilliant book based on what should have been a campy premise: Huge Bengal tiger escapes from a circus train that is travelling through the southern US, and begins a killing spree. A friend told me about the hardcover from Tor, and I took a chance and picked it up. In a word, brilliant. The characters are fleshed out and deftly drawn, the suspense effective, and the prose both lean and literate. Do yourself a favor and check this one out. Now.

I read every day and this is one of the best books I have ever read and I have read a lot of books over the last 40 years. My husband is reading this right now and he can hardly put it down. I love to read books by Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Lee Childs, John Sandford and many others. The characters in this book come alive, I laughed, cried, and was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole book. I hope Jack Warner is writing more books because he is on my list as "must have more of his books".

Truly after reading the reviews written by previous readers about this book, i just had to read the book. I was intrigued ultimately about the premise of the story, a bengal tiger lose in north Georgia, AWESOME. Reading the first half of the story i found comparisons to that of the movie "Jaws", mystique, suspense, and great story telling both depicted by Warner and Speilber. The second half of the story then wandered a bit from the roots and went into a metaphorical shift to ones manhood. But i do truly wish many to read this story which i couldnt put down!!! Also Jim Grahams character in this story is truly charasmatic and geniune!! READ IT

Why wasn't MANEATER a monster hit? It is in a class with Benchley's JAWS and Godey's THE SNAKE. A maneating tiger loose in the woods of north Georgia, numerous amateur huters becoming tiger-chow before the trained professional is brought in -- this just begs to be a major motion picture.

It's a shame this book has such a cheesy cover and large print - it was truly excellent. A sort of _Jaws_ on the land - substituting the tiger for the great white. And its relationship with Roy was just fascinating! It read like a movie, though I suppose it would be too difficult to actually translate this into the silver screen without ruining it, which really is a shame...
Still, it was an excellent book and I would most certainly read another book by him! It was sad and had a rather gruesome premise, but somehow was a surprisingly beautiful story. I liked the tiger's "name" too...