Tarzan: The Jungle Warrior

Tarzan #2

by Andy Briggs

When a baby gorilla is snatched from its family by the world's most infamous hunter, Tarzan will stop at nothing to track him down - crossing the wild jungle and hostile African savannah to bring him to justice.Meanwhile, Jane is trying to learn more about Tarzan's past, and must decide whether reuniting him with his lost Greystoke family is the right thing to do. But Robbie has ideas of his own. He has formed a plan that will get rid of Tarzan for good, and keep the secrets of his own past safe.Tarzan, The Jungle Warrior is a lion-roaring read that brings the classic story bang into the 21st century, and will publish at the start of the Tarzan centenary year.

288 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Andy is a screenwriter, graphic novelist, author and conservationist – writing on movie projects such as “JUDGE DREDD” and “FREDDY VS JASON” and “FOREVERMAN” for Paramount Pictures, Spiderman creator Stan Lee and legendary producer Robert Evans. He has worked on TV projects for Syfy, Netflix, ITV and Amazon and is working extensively between the UK, US and China.

Andy went on to work on Warner Bros.’ animated “AQUAMAN” – while at the same time landing an eight-book deal with Oxford University Press for “HERO.COM” and “VILLAIN.NET”. His comics and graphic novels include MADISON DARK, RITUAL and DINOCORPS.

He wrote and Executively Produced the UK/Chinese movie – LEGENDARY – starring Scott Adkins and Dolph Lungdren. In 2018 his latest movie, CROWHURST (directed by Simon Rumley, Dist. Studio Canal),was released this year to critical acclaim. SUPERVIZED (directed by Steve Barron, starring Tom Berenger, Beau Bridges )was released in 2019. In 2020 his latest theatric drama-documentary, THE BASTARD KING was release in France to huge critical acclaim.

He has rebooted the classic character TARZAN, with a series of contemporary books TARZAN: THE GREYSTOKE LEGACY, TARZAN: THE JUNGLE WARRIOR and TARZAN: THE SAVAGE LANDS. His latest series of middle grade novels – THE INVENTORY – and DRONE RACER – are published by Scholastic. 2019 saw his debut novel for adults, CTRL+S, published by Orion.

His latest venture, The Shingle Media, is a new production company that will make theatre, TV and film, and it already has an exciting slate of projects…

Reviews

[Eileen Keir · Rating 4 out of 5]

Somewhat disappointing

The author uses a lot of passive voice and switches character viewpoint several times in the same chapter without warning and sometimes within the same page. Much of this novel takes place in "civilization" and not the jungle which was necessary for the story but I enjoyed the jungle setting much more. If you thought the first book ended on a cliffhanger, this one really did. The story is good but overall, the writing was not as good as the first one in my opinion.

[Sean Harding · Rating 3 out of 5]

Part two of the modern retelling of Tarzan trilogy, and it is another decent read. You can clearly tell where the modern takes over from the past in terms of the sensibilities and attitudes, but there is some good moral complexities and not always easy solutions which make for a decent read.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I think I liked this even better than the first book. I love Tarzan and the action was great. I liked that Tarzan had such an awful, cruel adversary in this book. I hated Rokoff and Paulvitch and even though Tarzan killed a fair number of men in the story, which was quite brutal in places, you found yourself cheering him on because of the cruelty the hunters inflicted on the animals just for sport or for money. My favourite parts of the book is on the boat when Robbie, Jane and Tarzan try to rescue Karnath and then when the hunters are trying to flee in the trucks and the three of them ride up on zebras alongside the cheetahs and dispose of half of the bad guys. I loved it when Paulvitch was attacked in the truck by the cheetah because it was so violent but deserved as he is so horrible and cruel. I am really looking forward to reading the next one because of who Jane and Robbie find back at the camp at the end. I think it will be really exciting!

[James · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thoroughly enjoyed this book it was full of twists and turns it was a little hard to understand at the beginning and that it took me a little longer than it should to read this book but. I thoroughly enjoyed the descriptions of tarzan and how he was really a sleeping giant that if he got angry he would be very brutal and kill without reflection of what he has done. The main story is of Tarzan becoming friends with Jane and he excepts her to his family and when a poacher comes along and takes one of his family he gets lead on this massive goose chase across Africa.

[Stephanie · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bleck

[Glen · Rating 4 out of 5]

just as good as book one

[James Kinsley]

Lumpy, leaden prose style. Gave it four chapters, then canned it.