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When a huge, genetically altered Siberian tiger with a taste for killing escapes from the zoo, the city of Los Angeles is torn apart by panic, and animal care specialist Meg Brewster must find the tiger before it is too late. 60,000 first printing.
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320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1994
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Ken Eulo
10 books10 followersKen Eulo is a Eugene O'Neill Award-winning writer and bestselling author whose novels have collectively sold over 13 million copies worldwide.
Eulo's began his career in New York City, in the 1970s, as a playwright. In the 1980s, he received national recognition with his first horror book series The Brownstone Trilogy. Since its publication in October 1980, the series has developed a cult following. His success was followed by the novels Nocturnal, The Ghost of Veronica Gray, Manhattan Heat, Claw and The House of Caine. During the same decade Eulo moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a writer for television shows, including Small Wonder, Marblehead Manor, and Benson.
Eulo relocated to Orlando, Florida in the 1990s where he founded and currently serves as the artistic director for the New York Acting Ensemble. The repertory company consists of writers, directors, and actors. They regularly produce touring shows and host regular performances in the Orlando area. Several notable company members have included writer Daniel Corey and actor Creagen Dow.
Eulo's began his career in New York City, in the 1970s, as a playwright. In the 1980s, he received national recognition with his first horror book series The Brownstone Trilogy. Since its publication in October 1980, the series has developed a cult following. His success was followed by the novels Nocturnal, The Ghost of Veronica Gray, Manhattan Heat, Claw and The House of Caine. During the same decade Eulo moved to Los Angeles where he worked as a writer for television shows, including Small Wonder, Marblehead Manor, and Benson.
Eulo relocated to Orlando, Florida in the 1990s where he founded and currently serves as the artistic director for the New York Acting Ensemble. The repertory company consists of writers, directors, and actors. They regularly produce touring shows and host regular performances in the Orlando area. Several notable company members have included writer Daniel Corey and actor Creagen Dow.
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August 12, 2008
At the L.A. zoo a 700 pound Siberian tiger is restless. Rajah, the largest Siberian ever to be kept in captivity, has been exhibiting unusually aggressive behavior that has led veterinarian Meg Brewster to set a special night watch for a clue to the animal's rages.
The night keeper, frustrated by the great cat's refusal to show himself for her observation, unwisely climbs into his enclosure, up along a wall she is quite certain he cannot scale. Hunting her, Rajah scales the 20-foot wall and drags his keeper down into his cave. Meg quarantines the cat, sends blood samples to her mentor, deals with the L.A. cops and fends off the press.
The zoo's in trouble though, heavy financial trouble. So, over Meg's irate objections, the chief curator and director of the zoo, in order to capitalize on the publicity, put Rajah back on view.
Predictably, an excited crowd pushes loose a security rail and tumbles into the furious tiger's enclosure, from which he claws a bloody path to freedom in the 4000 acres of Griffith Park, sparking terror throughout the city and drawing animal control, cops, and federal agents ordered to shoot to kill.
Meg's fears for Rajah turn to suspicion when her bosses try to pin the cat's escape on her, the feds yank her files and samples and her mentor is killed after leaving a frantic phone message. Further events link the zoo and a top-secret scientific experiment, and it all culminates in a blood-spattered mountainside chase.
Claw was a really quick read. It's a fantastic, gory horror/adventure story that asks important questions about animal intelligence, aggression, and revenge. I can't say I'd recommend it to just anyone, because there is a lot of blood - from the beginning of the book to its end. And I can't say that it was a great literary find or anything. It's really just a good book to curl up with at night, and scare yourself with.
The night keeper, frustrated by the great cat's refusal to show himself for her observation, unwisely climbs into his enclosure, up along a wall she is quite certain he cannot scale. Hunting her, Rajah scales the 20-foot wall and drags his keeper down into his cave. Meg quarantines the cat, sends blood samples to her mentor, deals with the L.A. cops and fends off the press.
The zoo's in trouble though, heavy financial trouble. So, over Meg's irate objections, the chief curator and director of the zoo, in order to capitalize on the publicity, put Rajah back on view.
Predictably, an excited crowd pushes loose a security rail and tumbles into the furious tiger's enclosure, from which he claws a bloody path to freedom in the 4000 acres of Griffith Park, sparking terror throughout the city and drawing animal control, cops, and federal agents ordered to shoot to kill.
Meg's fears for Rajah turn to suspicion when her bosses try to pin the cat's escape on her, the feds yank her files and samples and her mentor is killed after leaving a frantic phone message. Further events link the zoo and a top-secret scientific experiment, and it all culminates in a blood-spattered mountainside chase.
Claw was a really quick read. It's a fantastic, gory horror/adventure story that asks important questions about animal intelligence, aggression, and revenge. I can't say I'd recommend it to just anyone, because there is a lot of blood - from the beginning of the book to its end. And I can't say that it was a great literary find or anything. It's really just a good book to curl up with at night, and scare yourself with.
January 25, 2022
A research lab releases a Siberian tiger to the L.A. Zoo. 700 hundred pounds of feline escapes and sets out on a killing spree. Is it just a normal tiger, or was it's being in a laboratory somehow effected it's DNA? You probably know the answer to this, or we wouldn't be here now.
Pretty straight forward cat on the loose tale with a few odd angles thrown in. This had too much emotional baggage between the female zookeeper and her new boyfriend and ex-husband. Not enough tiger on the loose terror for me. Not a bad book though.
Pretty straight forward cat on the loose tale with a few odd angles thrown in. This had too much emotional baggage between the female zookeeper and her new boyfriend and ex-husband. Not enough tiger on the loose terror for me. Not a bad book though.
March 23, 2019
When animals/nature attack is one of my favorite horror sub genres to read. This book didn’t disappoint. A giant Siberian tiger who was the subject of scientific experiments has escaped from the zoo and is on a killing spree. The body count is high in this one. There are heroes to root for and an evil corporation to hate. I loved it. Pure reading fun.
August 16, 2021
“At one point she awoke with a start, aware that she was dreaming of a saber-toothed cat that had roamed North America until its extinction 11,000 years ago. It had been a particularly grisly dream as she followed the cat, hunting alone, then chasing its prey across a grassy plain. Suddenly she was there and it directed its vicious gaze at her, just about to plunge its daggerlike fangs into her neck when she awoke. In the distance an animal shrieked.”
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I honestly picked this book up solely because I thought the cover was incredibly bitchin. When I read the synopsis, I assumed it was going to be a when animals attack book (similar to Jaws but with a tiger in place of the shark) and it kind of was… until about a quarter into the book when it took a strange turn and went in a vastly different direction. It was a quick, enjoyable read that allowed me to just sit back and watch the events unfold before me. Recommended if you’re looking for a popcorn book or a beach read .
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I honestly picked this book up solely because I thought the cover was incredibly bitchin. When I read the synopsis, I assumed it was going to be a when animals attack book (similar to Jaws but with a tiger in place of the shark) and it kind of was… until about a quarter into the book when it took a strange turn and went in a vastly different direction. It was a quick, enjoyable read that allowed me to just sit back and watch the events unfold before me. Recommended if you’re looking for a popcorn book or a beach read .
December 23, 2021
I was in two minds about this book. I had read Ken Eulo’s “stone” trilogy (brownstone, bloodstone & deathstone) and was quite disappointed but this was much better and I liked it more than I expected to
February 28, 2011
I worked for seven years at a research firm in Evanston after being laid off from the university and discovering that other deanships were in high demand while I wasn't. It was a let-down, interviewing pension fund directors at universities and colleges, no longer being in a higher educational institution myself or having a pension or any other benefits at my new job.
But I wasn't, am not alone in this. The company was filled with has-beens and failures--as well as hopeful students working their way through graduate school. Companies without pensions or benefits for their employees are all over the place, more and more of them every year, more and more has-beens and failures.
One of my fellows at work was a writer, the coauthor of this book in fact. Although I don't much like most horror novels and didn't like this one, I read it out of respect and sympathy for him. A congenial fellow, I also took him along to regular meetings of Chicago horror writers sponsored by the small publisher, Twilight Tales, for whom I also worked (without benefits or pension, naturally, but then they were poor enthusiasts, not successful capitalists) during that period. He liked it. I didn't so much and stopped going when I stopped proofing their publications.
Oh, the book...yes, well, the book is about a mutated Siberian tiger on the loose in and around L.A., the terror he causes and the efforts to stop it.
But I wasn't, am not alone in this. The company was filled with has-beens and failures--as well as hopeful students working their way through graduate school. Companies without pensions or benefits for their employees are all over the place, more and more of them every year, more and more has-beens and failures.
One of my fellows at work was a writer, the coauthor of this book in fact. Although I don't much like most horror novels and didn't like this one, I read it out of respect and sympathy for him. A congenial fellow, I also took him along to regular meetings of Chicago horror writers sponsored by the small publisher, Twilight Tales, for whom I also worked (without benefits or pension, naturally, but then they were poor enthusiasts, not successful capitalists) during that period. He liked it. I didn't so much and stopped going when I stopped proofing their publications.
Oh, the book...yes, well, the book is about a mutated Siberian tiger on the loose in and around L.A., the terror he causes and the efforts to stop it.
July 2, 2012
ok book.
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