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Writer John Vaillant (pronounced Valiant) won a Governor-General's Award for non-fiction for his book “The Golden Spruce”. Vaillant's skill is finding engrossing stories with an ecological slant to them. “The Tiger”, his follow-up book, has a much more exciting premise. In the remote far eastern forests of Russia, a huge Siberian Tiger has attacked and killed several people. But the men assigned to hunt down the creature soon find themselves stalked by their target!