This may be the season of ghosts and goblins, with Halloween at the end of the week, but over here in book land, it's a countdown to a launch! In this case, I refer to my forthcoming action/adventure novel YEAR OF THE TIGER.
In the writing game, authors are told to keep ratcheting up the conflict - what some may call a "slow burn" - until the final climactic scene. Our hero here faces that upward climb to the final goal, from getting out of his present restricted situation, traveling half-way around the world, locating the particular tiger in all of India, passing himself off as a real shikari (professional hunter), then going into the . . . .
Wouldn't want to give away too much!
Suffice to say, the theme of this tale - the hunter vs the hunted - plays out with every character, human and feline, making this novel a taut, visceral polemic on the effect of human conquest upon Nature, and the dark heart of mankind. The tiger's world is bright, vivid, beautiful, while the world of the humans is rigid, full of deception, and consumed with greed. But there is hope following the carnage . . . .
Almost said too much again. Well, there's the start of someone's book review, anyway.
YEAR OF THE TIGER is due out on November 1, give or take a day or two, depending on the vagaries of the electronic publishing quirks. Look for it in both paperback and as ebook for Kindle.
You will have to excuse the "Thou shalt not resell" banner wrapped around the proof copy.
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