The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival

pretty good idea. Sorting through the heap of blood-stiffened clothing, Deputy Bush pulled out a knife ...

then by Khomenko’s bullets), and he was simply immobilizing the latest threat. When Trush encountered that t ...

by a truck. Next to it was an enameled steel saucepan that had also been badly scratched and de ...

of these behaviors, implied an alarming confidence and clarity of purpose. As Trush and his team ...

5 And menacingly the mighty vastness envelops me, reflected with terrible force in my depths. NIKOLAI ...

This occurred at the same time that George Orwell’s 1984 was introducing Western readers to a ...

imagine how the fabric of a country could have been more thoroughly shredded from within and without. Almo ...

each other like so many tectonic plates. The world as we know it was forming then, along fault line ...

long using our bare hands. We got ourselves some bear spears and maces with metal heads similar to th ...

Soviet Russia’s secrecy and paranoia are legendary to the point of caricature, but they were ...

a quarter of the way around the world. To get there in 1969 would have meant two to three weeks on the Tra ...

diminutive form of Vladimir), would later recall how Markov taught him to navigate the dense and trackless ...

† Damansky/Zhen Bao was formally ceded to China by Boris Yeltsin in 1991. ...

6 The tiger answered, “Your son has been boasting. If he is the stronger, let him kill me; if I am the stro ...

knew then that she’d got him. Right there, that fucking carrion eater’s got her meat-head down, growling ...

grieving mad. She insisted on seeing her husband, demanding him in ways that were hard for his frien ...

from there, to work in the woods in southern Primorye, not far from a town named for the explorer Ar ...

Island. Some had done time in the far north. They were a rugged, salty bunch, and many of the women wo ...

Markov emerged, joking, from a sound sleep. Playing on “Ivan,” as in Ivan the Terrible, he exclaimed, “Oh! ...

man Sobolonye Radio. It was due, in part, to his humor and good nature that Markov attracted the attention ...