Equipped with exceptionally sharp four-inch claws on paws the size of kitchen pot lids, such creatures can weigh 500 pounds. He details the awesome strength and devastating destructive capability of the Amur subspecies (also known as Siberian), the only tigers able to survive arctic conditions. "It was men who were responsible for the aggression of this animal," said Trush, "and the incident with Markov was a sort of quintessence of all these cases." In order to contextualize events, Vaillant surveys the unique ecosystem of Primorye Territory, a logging, mining, fishing and hunting area between China and the Sea of Japan. Luck as much as experience and preparedness saved the agent in an especially dramatic climactic episode.
Soon after consuming Markov, the tiger devours a young hunter, Andrei Pochepnya, and also nearly kills Yuri Trush, a tracker with Inspection Tiger, an outfit tasked with combating crimes involving tigers, which usually means disarming poachers but which now means pursuing an atypically vengeful killer cat. Shooting a tiger - perhaps because it attacked his dogs, perhaps to meet demand for such cats' meat across the border in China - transforms the two-legged predator into prey, who the tiger follows and annihilates with deliberate ferocity. Vladimir Markov, a struggling beekeeper, is compelled by poverty into illegal hunting of tigers. In "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival," John Vaillant tells a cross-species true-crime story in which the perpetrators of violence, both human and non-human, are also victims of desperate circumstances. A mur tigers do not usually eat people, but in late 1997 one in the Russian Far East started doing exactly that.
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