Tigers are vengeful as well as thoughtful when it comes retribution and payback... Check this book out. It's a great read. I remember reading a part where a tiger brings a tribute to a character in the book because it figured out that person helped him out earlier.
Markov wasn't the only person this tiger ate. There's an excellent book about this incident, called The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival. It's a fascinating read, and is full of information about the plight of tigers and other wildlife in the Russian Far East as well as human struggle for survival. Highly recommended.
Believe it or not tigers are known for revenge kills and keeping grudges. This book details a very specific case of that. Amur tiger wounded by a poacher and he stalked him for days and even went to his house and destroyed everything in it and then waited for the the guy to come back and killed him too.
Viimati lugesin John Vaillanti "The Tiger. A True Story of Vengeance and Survival", soovitan, viib päris hästi mõttelisele reisile kuhugi Primorje kraisse (nagu selgub, pole päris õige öelda "karuperse", kuna tiigrid söövad sealkandis karud ära, huntidest rääkimata), isegi kui vahepeal tuli tunne, et ei julge ka siin Eestis enam üldse pimedas õue minna. Sarnasel lainel varasemate tõsielu-raamatutega, mis mulle meeldinud, nagu Jon Krakaueri Into the Wild ja Into Thin Air.
Tehniliselt võttes on pooleli Jeff Nooni "The Body Library" ja vist jääbki pooleli, sest tal läheb seal võhm jutustamisviisile loo asemel ja ma ei jaksa. Samamoodi Tõnu Õnnepalu "Pariis" (kingiti), ma ei suuda lugeda neid ei millestki toodetud tähemärke ja mõttetut ilulemist.
Tahaks mingit head ulmet lugeda, aga ei tea, mida. Mul muidugi on ka hulk Gibsonit ja M. Banksi siiani lugemata.
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https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Totally legit, a very enjoyable read.
The best possible outcome is to never see a tiger in the wild. You'll live longer that way.
Amur tigers are known to hunt and kill, as well as fight brown bears. That match seems to slightly favor the tiger.
However, an Amur tiger may not do as well against, say a Kodiak brown bear, or a polar bear.
edit: I was on mobile earlier, but here is the source: The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
You said you wanted to get away from non-fiction and read more thrillers, but here is a non-fiction book that IS a thriller. John Vaillant's The Tiger: a True story of Vengeance and Survival.
As for fictional thrillers, the Agent Pendergast series by Preston & Child is suspenseful and fast moving. Relic is the first. If you saw the movie based on it from the 90's with Mira Sorvino, don't let that stop you from reading. Of course the book is better.
Good luck!
There’s a book about this, it seemed really interesting because the tiger stalked him for days I’m pretty sure.
Edit: found it https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307389049/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Y5U8Ab81M6ET2
Time you should do some reading, my know it all friend. You can start here: https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049 The Tiger is a true story of how a pissed off tiger stalked and killed modern armed hunters:
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous.
Read that book and come back here once you get a real idea just how scary a big cat can be. I hunt, and it even creeped me out.
How about some revengeful man eating tigers? I loved this. https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
John Vaillant's book, The Tiger about this truly excellent.
I recently signed up for Ryan Holiday's newsletter for his book recommendations. I'm only a few weeks into it, but I picked up 'The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival' based a newsletter from a few weeks ago. I generally hate getting newsletters, but so far this one seems to be worth it. I picked up a couple of his books too. I'm getting 'The Tiger' today, so I haven't read it yet, but in addition to Holiday raving about it, the reviews are pretty good too.
Here is the blurb about The Tiger from Holiday's newsletter:
Damn this book is good. Just so good. Even if it was just the main narrative—the chase to kill a man-eating Tiger in Siberia in post-communist Russia—it would be worth reading. But it is so much more than that. The author explains the Russian psyche, the psyche of man vs predator, the psyches of primitive peoples and animals—and he does it in such a masterful way that you’re shocked to find 1) that he knows this, and 2) that he fit it all into this readable and relatively short book. I’ve recommended this book to thousands of people and have heard countless times how much they loved it. Not a single complaint.
I also just started 'The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters'. It seems like it'll be OK, but I'm not far enough into it yet to know if I'll like it or not.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
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It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
It was in 1997 so yea not the same tiger as the picture
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
We dont know it exactly. Its around 12 to 48. I just didnt want to make it worse than it is if it wasnt.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
Book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
story
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459
It's a true story he tried asking people in his village for help. But they were scared and left him to it. So in 12-48 hours he was getting hunted desperate for help. He hid in his cabin and the tiger waited behind a matress outside. Stalking him, and him knowing he was next. Everyone in village knew about it too. And had warned him not to take the tigers kill/food.
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049 heres a 350 page book on it
Link to the whole book (need to buy it though but its good!) the tiger
I posted it in the comments already but ok
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129551459&t=1634858909575
The tiger on amazon too its the book
https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (Vintage Departures) https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307389049/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_hlelFbG9SBWKZ
There an amazing book based on a true story of a man eating Siberan tiger's vengeful behavior in Russia by John Vaillant. https://www.amazon.com/Tiger-Vengeance-Survival-Vintage-Departures/dp/0307389049
Read this book and learn to truly fear tigers
Naturally, the ebook is MORE than the paperback. WHY WHY WHY?
This is an amazing book on tigers.