This is a novel with atmospheric tension. The end impression that of a first rate adventure against the sultry background of of a man-eating tiger. Black, a war hero, meets own cowardice to face, after Black has begun a hunt for the tigers with man feared as the embodiment of the tiger. Difficult reading at times, the told against an elusively presented past and an romance between Black and Tanner's wife. But hunting story fans will like it.