Maneater

by Jack Warner

Book Overview

Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Harte County, Georgia, is good at his job; keeping the peace in a sleepy corner of the huge forested wilderness at the southern tip of the Appalachian Trail. But soon he... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1596871660
• ISBN13: 9781596871663
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: iBooks
• Length: 547 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Story, Poorly Marketed

It's a shame this book has such a cheesy cover and large print - it was truly excellent. A sort of _Jaws_ on the land - substituting the tiger for the great white. And its relationship with Roy was just fascinating! It read like a movie, though I suppose it would be too difficult to actually translate this into the silver screen without ruining it, which really is a shame... Still, it was an excellent book and I would most certainly read another book by him! It was sad and had a rather gruesome premise, but somehow was a surprisingly beautiful story. I liked the tiger's "name" too...

Why Wasn't This Huge?

Why wasn't MANEATER a monster hit? It is in a class with Benchley's JAWS and Godey's THE SNAKE. A maneating tiger loose in the woods of north Georgia, numerous amateur huters becoming tiger-chow before the trained professional is brought in -- this just begs to be a major motion picture.

Suspensful

Truly after reading the reviews written by previous readers about this book, i just had to read the book. I was intrigued ultimately about the premise of the story, a bengal tiger lose in north Georgia, AWESOME. Reading the first half of the story i found comparisons to that of the movie "Jaws", mystique, suspense, and great story telling both depicted by Warner and Speilber. The second half of the story then wandered a bit from the roots and went into a metaphorical shift to ones manhood. But i do truly wish many to read this story which i couldnt put down!!! Also Jim Grahams character in this story is truly charasmatic and geniune!! READ IT

Maneater by Jack Warner

I read every day and this is one of the best books I have ever read and I have read a lot of books over the last 40 years. My husband is reading this right now and he can hardly put it down. I love to read books by Dean Koontz, Stephen King, Lee Childs, John Sandford and many others. The characters in this book come alive, I laughed, cried, and was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole book. I hope Jack Warner is writing more books because he is on my list as "must have more of his books".

Do yourself a favor!

How this novel escaped wider attention is simply beyond me. Jack Warner delivers a brilliant book based on what should have been a campy premise: Huge Bengal tiger escapes from a circus train that is travelling through the southern US, and begins a killing spree. A friend told me about the hardcover from Tor, and I took a chance and picked it up. In a word, brilliant. The characters are fleshed out and deftly drawn, the suspense effective, and the prose both lean and literate. Do yourself a favor and check this one out. Now.