Shikar | Shikar | Jack Warner

Utterly gripping man vs beast thriller | Shikar | Jack Warner

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	• Shikar Jack Warner Forge Books, 2003 - 368 pages average customer review:based on 28 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Fantastic Book!!

This book had it all: originality, great characters and a thrilling plotline. I couldn't put it down! A great book to take to the beach this summer(although I'm not sure I'd bring it camping).

Shikar

In the tradition of the great man-eating tigers of India, Author Jack Warner has written this soon to be classic that is about a Bengal tiger that gets loose in Alabama. He turns man-eater and unleashes and reign of terror of the states' inhabits. I love this page turner. If you love 'Man-Eaters of Kumoan' then Shikar a is must read. The British hunter of the story Colonel Jim Graham is based on the real tiger hunter Colonel Jim Corbett and this adds a delightful touch to the story.

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Utterly gripping man vs beast thriller

I've always liked good when-animals-attack stories, going right back to Benchley's "Jaws", so I thought I'd give "Shikar" a try, figuring it might be something like "The Ghost and the Darkness" on American soil.

One word: wow. Jack Warner is a GREAT storyteller. The Brits invented a phrase for tales like this: ripping yarns. This is a ripping yarn par excellence. It has everything you could want in a suspense novel: interesting characters that make you care about them, snappy, naturalistic dialogue, a rich sense of place, and some surprises and shocks along the way.

I read Stephen Laws' big-cat-on-the-rampage novel "Ferocity" before this and found it fairly execrable -- a melodramatic, overblown, ludicrous killer-panther story with characters that I WANTED to get eaten and action scenes straight out of a bad straight-to-VHS action movie.

"Shikar" was the total opposite: a smoothly-written, intelligent, exciting read that'll have you flipping through its pages well after midnight, much like the best works of Stephen King (albeit with more restraint than King usually shows). Warner's many years of experience as a newspaper reporter have served him well; his prose is efficient, crisp and really brings the characters and locations to life. I really hope someone turns this into a movie, because it'd be a cracker. I can see Peter O'Toole as the elegant old tiger hunter, or even Ian McKellen perhaps.

Highly, highly recommended.

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Really Good Read

I did not think I would like a book about a tiger loose in Georgia. Boy, was I wrong. This story sucks you in and you want to keep reading.

A year or so ago the SciFi Channel made a pathetic movie that was obviously based on this book. But as bad as the movie was, the book is great.

I would advise anyone who likes high suspense and action to read this book.

Original and Outstanding Thriller!

I thought the premise of this book seemed a bit silly but decided to try it based on the exceptionally good reviews. I hereby thank the previous reviewers! I also thank Jack Warner for such an outstanding and original thriller--I think I'll remember this one for a long time.

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hikar pits Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Hartesville, Georgia, against a fearsome opponent-a full-grown Bengal tiger that has somehow found its way to his jurisdiction. Brickhouse is very good at keeping the peace in his corner of Harte County, Georgia, the huge forested wilderness at the southern end of the Appala-chian Trail. But he's no match for a tiger, one of the most powerful and cunning predators on the planet. Few humans are. Grady has to figure out something quick: the death toll is mounting, politicians and the media are clamoring for something to be done. Plus there's something strange going on that Grady just can't put his finger on. . . . Shikar is freshly inventive, with fully realized characters and surprising plot twists. Jack Warner performs storytelling magic in the clear, resonant style of the classic adventures of Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, and Michael Crichton. This is the kind of novel that keeps us up reading into the early morning hours, makes us miss our stop, forces us to be late for appointments. It is a novel you will never forget.

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