Tiger, Tiger
By (Author) Philip Caveney
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
20th July 2015
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Narrative theme: Coming of age
Narrative theme: Love and relationships
823.92
Paperback
368
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 23mm
270g
Malaya in the late 1960s was at last casting off the yoke of British colonial rule. But Harry Tiger Sullivan, a retired military officer, had made his career in Malaya for almost two decades had nowhere else to go.
Distinguished ex-serviceman Harry Sullivan has a comfortable life in Malaya, until the arrival of Bob Beresford a brash and handsome Australian.
Eighteen-year-old Melissa Tremayne is like the daughter Sullivan never had. But, bored with the slow pace of British expatriate life, she is determined to win Bob Beresfords not-so-fatherly affection.
A rivalry starts to develop between the two men, intensified by the appearance of a man-eating tiger. Bob wants the glory of killing the beast, while Melissa is pursuing a different kind of trophy: Bob himself. Soon, Sullivan finds himself drawn into a trial of manhood that he is unwilling to take.
Philip Caveney is the author of Tiger, Tiger. born in Wales in 1951, he now lives in Manchester and is at work on his next novel.