The Eye Of The Tiger

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Synopsis

For Harry Fletcher, life on St Mary's Island is good. He has a fine boat and a long list of rich clients eager to charter it for the big game fishing of the Mozambique Channel. He has a home amongst the palms above a white coral beach and he has friends and pretty girls to share his paradise.

Harry has earned all this the hard way, but now he is at peace. Until suddenly men from the world of violence which he has forsaken so long before arrive on the island to plunge him once more into a deadly game - for an unknown prize against undeclared odds. Of one thing Harry is certain: to fail is to die.

The irrepressible Harry, adventurer and rogue, takes up the challenge and brings both a touch of hilarity and a chillingly ruthless sense of purpose to the quest, as he gropes his way towards the legendary golden tiger and its fabulous eye...

Characters
Harry Fletcher		(aka Harry Bruce) Retired mercenary, thief and part-time smuggler running a big game fishing service on the paradise island of St Mary's situated off the east coast of Africa.
Cubby		Harry's friend and partner in his fishing service.
Angelo		Harry's friend and partner in his fishing service.
Materson		Mysterious mercenary who used Harry's boat to search for the missing treasure.
Mike Guthrie		Mysterious mercenary who used Harry's boat to search for the missing treasure.
Jimmy North		Young diver and treasure hunter who meets an early death.
Judith		Angelo's pretty girlfriend who is mistakenly killed.
Lorna Page		(aka Sherry North) Mysterious woman posing as Jimmy's sister. She unsuccessfully tries to kill Harry.
Sherry North		Jimmy's 'real' sister. Although Harry falls in love with her, she, too, hides a dark secret.
Manny Resnick		(aka Manson) Harry's crime partner in the South African bullion heist.




Interesting Information
	First published in 1975 by William Heinemann Ltd.
	Book dedication: For my wife, Danielle, with love
	Book Preface: 'Tiger! Tiger! Burning bright, In the forests of the night, In what distant deeps or skies, burnt the fire of thine eyes.' - William Blake




Reader Reviews
	From Andre' Mes -
	EYE OF THE TIGER was the second Wilbur Smith book I read after RIVER GOD. After reading that book, I was concerned that EYE OF THE TIGER would not live up to my expectations from his Egyptian epic. I was wrong. As both stories were so totally different, set in different millenniums, I drew no comparisons and was swept into the knuckle-cracking story of Harry Fletcher and his underwater search for treasure. A one point the story seemed to wind down, but you know there is more and it explodes back again with false identities and more ruthless killers. One almost wishes that you could visit St Mary's after Smith so lovingly describes its coral reefs and sun-bleached beaches! In an age when treasure hunts are few and far between, EYE OF THE TIGER brings back the childhood dream of discovering vast amounts of treasure with lethal danger lurking just around the next corner!
	It is a blood-and-cyclone story of derring-do for those who like their fiction served fast and steaming...it has characters that are more than marionettes, it has humour and it is all put together in sweaty muscular prose with supreme professionalism, vividness and attention to detail. A tale to delight the millions of addicts of the gutsy adventure story. - Sunday Express
	The real strength of Mr Smith's book is its pace. It's like three good books in one. At the end there is a manhunt and a wreck stuffed with riches. And the twist in the very last page will leave you gasping. It is rich fast entertainment, all the way. - Daily Mirror
	A thundering good read is virtually the only way of describing Wilbur Smith's books and this is perhaps the best of them. - The Irish Times

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