The 92nd Tiger

by Michael Gilbert

Hugo Greest is the tiger. He now has a TV adventure series in which he has knocked out 91 beautiful girls and 91 villains. The 92nd comes unexpectedly when he is approached by the Foreign Office. It seems that His Highness Sheik bin Rashid bin Abdullah al Ferini, in the middle of a small war, needs a new military advisor and he wants Hugo for the job. Of course, the international arms trade is involved, and of course there is much more to the post than at first apparent ...

Genres: Mystery

190 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1973

About the author

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Born in Lincolnshire in 1912, Michael Francis Gilbert was educated in Sussex before entering the University of London where he gained an LLB with honours in 1937. Gilbert was a founding member of the British Crime Writers Association, and in 1988 he was named a Grand Master by the Mystery Writers of America - an achievement many thought long overdue. He won the Life Achievement Anthony Award at the 1990 Boucheron in London, and in 1980 he was knighted as a Commander in the Order of the British Empire. Gilbert made his debut in 1947 with Close Quarters, and since then has become recognized as one of our most versatile British mystery writers.

He was the father of Harriett Gilbert.

Reviews

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's a spy novel! It's a suspense novel! It's a murder mystery! It's a romance! Hard to combine and balance all these elements in one book. It is especially difficult to balance the lighthearted romantic moments against the starkness of war and torture--and some of that was hard for me, the audience, to adjust to. Still, I liked the sly pokes at the business of serial TV episodes, the character of Tammy (Hugo's love interest), and Gilbert's take on the economic realities of the Middle East. If anything failed to hold my attention, it was the ins and outs of the arms deals and how the payments worked. Necessary, perhaps, but boring. Though I did appreciate how nothing about the wheeling dealing is honest or straight forward, another commentary akin to the world of television production.