The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

shock, his mind wandered to some frightening places. He could not fathom where his partner ...

The rescue team had a radiophone and they called for a helicopter, but because bills for previous rescue ...

stumbled on mating tigers—he ribbed him, saying, “You’re lucky that tiger didn’t try to fuck you instead of ...

testament to bloody-minded determination and, probably, love. It takes him twice as long now, and h ...

16 Amba, the tiger, said to the father, “Old man, leave me your son here; don’t take him with you. ...

something is wrong. But I can’t go there by myself. Let’s go together.’ He was confused and upset; ...

many Old Believers sought refuge following the Russian Revolution. Shortly after Stalin’s death, Zai ...

line only: a single set of boot tracks leading away, and never coming back. His traps, which were set a ...

This time, it fired perfectly. Pochepnya’s father was standing next to Burukhin, and there is no way to k ...

barely spoke, but in that silence, hooped and bound, he weathered a torrent of subjunctive recrimination t ...

17 Every fact seemed to warrant me in concluding that it was anything but chance which directed his ope ...

out of her mind with grief, and his father was spiraling into a suicidal depression. “We were neighbors,” ...

have tracked him right away. He killed a man, plus he was injured. They could have done it right ...

savior; for some, he became a scapegoat. Markov’s wife, along with a number of other villagers, was holdin ...

egule if ever there was one. The reinforcements had arrived from as far away as Vladivostok, a long day’s ...

live in fear of being overwhelmed. The hemorrhaging of natural resources from every port and border cr ...

Vladimir Schetinin, whose history with the State is checkered, to say the least, this erosion of status and ...

this tiger down. Ultimately, it was Schetinin’s call, and his official mandate was to prote ...

during the purges, it became a catch-all for a wide variety of undesirables, including Cossack ...

PART THREE ...