Menance

by Jack Warner

Menace pits Grady Brickhouse, sheriff of Harte County, Georgia, against an unlikely but fearsome opponent - a full-grown Bengal tiger that has somehow found it's way into his jurisdiction. Brickhouse happens to be very good at this keeping the peace in a sleepy corner of the huge forested wilderness at the southern tip of the Appalachian Trail. A former high-school principal, Brickhouse is known as a gentle and fair man; people like him. But he's no match for the tiger, one of the most powerful and cunning predators on the planet - few humans are, and every hunter who goes into the woods after the beast has been taken out in pieces. Brickhouse is going to have to find someone or something that can do anything damn quick - the death toll mounts every day, the media and the politicians are clamoring for something to be done?and something strange is going on that Brickhouse just can't put his finger on something that just doesn't add up. Menace is fresh and inventive. Jack Warner performs storytelling magic in the clear, resonant style of the classic adventures of Jack London and Michael Crichton.

352 pages, Paperback

First published November 8, 2005