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"Graham Greene meets Lee Child in this dark caper about a soldier recuperating on a politically fraught tropical island." --Entertainment WeeklyTigerman is an irresistible delight, something like Major Pettigrew’s Last Stand as played by James Bond. . . . What really makes Tigerman roar is its captivating blend of tones—from the light hues of domestic comedy to the bold colors of Spider-man. And Harkaway doesn’t stop there: Like some Marvel mad scientist, he has crossed strains of a modern-day environmental crisis with the sweet story of a veteran of the Afghan war trying to adopt a little boy. . . . [Tigerman] is ultimately no comic-book fantasy, just as a poisoned island is no paradise. You won’t see the next punch coming.” —Ron Charles, The Washington Post"The kind of good that makes you wonder why every book isn't this smart and joyous and beautiful and heartbreaking; that makes you a little bit pissed off that you ever gave away bits of your life to reading worse books, and sad that so many trees get wasted on authors with less grace, less surety, less confidence than this man who can throw comic books, video games, post-colonial guilt, the longing ache of the childless, murder, tea drinking and mystical tigers all together in a big hat, shake it vigorously, and draw from the resultant, jumbled mess something so beautiful." —Jason Sheehan, All Things Considered, NPR“This fantastic book deserves to be widely read and long remembered. . . . Harkaway writes with such a wonderful mix of humor, erudition, sensitivity and appreciation for a good bit of decidedly English fun.” —Nicholas Mancusi, The Miami Herald“Harkaway takes over where guys like Kurt Vonnegut left off. He walks the line between reality and fantasy and writes with a charming cynicism. . . . [A] mad genius.” —Andrew Blom, The Boston Herald "[Tigerman] is, in short, awesome. Read it immediately. . . . Abundantly funny. . . . And incredibly moving, too. . . . For all that Tigerman seems to be about a superhero on the surface, appearances are deceiving indeed: Harkaway is markedly more interested in the relationship between Lester and his friend. . . . In Harkaway’s hands, this friendship is as gripping as any mystery." —Niall Alexander, Tor.com“A funny, touching and meditative page-turner that will leave you thinking about what it really means to be a hero for days after you’ve finished it.” —Matthew Jackson, BookPage “An adventurous romp of a thriller which, like [its] hero Ferris, at its core contains a bit of longing. . . . But rest assured, Tigerman is full of win.” —Reader’s Digest“With his playfully erudite vocabulary and whizz-bang action plots, Harkaway, son of John le Carré and jiu jitsu practitioner, brings to mind the meaty thrills of Neal Stephenson. . . . [In Tigerman he] writes of an Afghanistan vet who ends up in a former tropical colony where he meets a young boy drunk on comic books. We’re betting things get a little weird.” —TimeOut Chicago, “14 Books You Must Read This Summer”“Packed with sharp wit and quick humor. . . . Harkaway’s novel offers big rewards: a world slightly skewed from our own, and yet still recognizable as the backdrop for a story that asks big questions about parenting, friendship, family, heroes and how to go on living when the world is ending. The resulting novel is a rollick of a read, packing emotion, hilarity and a dose of self-deprecation into a story that is, to borrow a phrase from Lester’s young friend, ‘full of win.’” —Kerry McHugh, Shelf Awareness “A splendid book, literary fiction that defies genres as it tells a timely superhero story with intelligence and warmth.” —Largehearted Boy“Yet another bravura performance from a writer whose imagination knows no bounds. Nick Harkaway is at it again, celebrating pop culture, mixing genres like a mad scientist, and producing a book that is both profoundly moving and deliriously entertaining. . . . [But] Harkaway throws a spanner in the comic-book works, adding depth and complexity to the mix, more Haruki Murakami than Stan Lee.” —Bill Ott, Booklist (starred review)“Brilliantly imagined. . . . A hoot and a half, and then some: hands down, the best island farce since Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)"[A] poignant morality tale, equally fueled by emotion and adrenaline. . . . Adroitly explores the lengths one man will go to save what he’s come to love, even in the face of almost-certain failure." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)Advance Praise from the UK“As much a homage to Graham Greene as to Stan Lee. . . . There are plenty of scrapes and escapades, lots of derring-do and derring-really-don't, building to a morally satisfying conclusion. . . . Through social media and the disconnection between inhabitants and governments, to the emotional difficulties of ex-servicemen and the way in which power is the display of power, Harkaway uses the story of a disappointed man and a disenfranchised boy to examine matters of real import. His great gift as a novelist—one he shares with writers such as China Miéville, Lauren Beukes and even Eleanor Catton—is to merge the pace, wit and clarity of the best ‘popular’ literature with the ambition, complexity and irony of the so-called ‘literary’ novel. Tigerman is in some ways all about the stripes: the distinctive becomes camouflage.” —Stuart Kelly, The Guardian “Will move you as powerfully as it will enthrall you. . . . 5 out of 5 stars.” —Jenny Barlow, The Daily Express (UK)“Astonishingly imaginative… Graham Greene would have treasured this book. . . . Outlandishly larger than life, with a cast of characters written in Technicolor…Nick Harkaway has all the writerly skills to pull it off. His Tigerman lives because of his wit and daring intelligence, and his empathy. Words quiver whenever he writes.” —Tom Adair, The Scotsman “Extraordinary. . . . The action sequences in Tigerman are some of Harkaway’s best. As ever, the writing is economical but lively, revelling in modern idiom. . . . [Has] the cinematic scope and dynamism one has come to expect from Harkaway. . . . The ending of Tigerman is pitch-perfect, thrilling and dramatic.” —Frank Brinkley, Literary Review (UK) “A peculiar but winning combination of a Graham Greene-like end-of-empire tale and lots of Lee Child-style baddie bashing. . . . Full of fine descriptive passages and memorable figures.” —John Dugdale, The Sunday Times “Tedious is the last word you could use to describe [Harkaway’s] writing…He tops his intellect in a ringmaster’s hat. But for all the entertainment to be had from the reading, the serious stuff is in there…Harkaway is a writer who nests big ideas inside bigger ideas.” —Teddy Jamieson, The Herald (Scotland) “Uses politics in the service of outsized entertainment. . . . Harkaway mashes this [up] with a hyperactive, quite possibly deranged, apocalyptic imagination to produce novels whose mind-splitting pile-up of subplots usually involve various corrupt governments, a ninja or two and at least ten explosions.” —Claire Allfree, Metro UK “Often hilarious but with an undercurrent of dark violence . . . an impressive novel that conceals provocative questions inside an old-school tale of ripping adventure.” —Saxon Bullock, SFX magazine“A captivating and emotional real-world superhero tale.” —Jack Parsons, SciFiNow “As entertaining and imaginative as you’d hope. . . . Clever and confidently written. . . . A treasure chest of brilliant and barmy delights. The end of the story seems to come too soon and that’s usually the mark of a great novel. Nick Harkaway takes the reader on a wild adventure and, though you know it’s all fiction, there’s a little part of you that wishes that Tigerman was actually real.” —Natalie Xenos, CultureFly.co.uk
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About the Author
Nick Harkaway is the author of two previous novels, The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker, and a nonfiction work about digital culture, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. He is also a regular blogger for The Bookseller’s FutureBook website. He lives in London with his wife, a human rights lawyer, and their two children.
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Product details
Paperback: 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (June 23, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0804170665
ISBN-13: 978-0804170666
Product Dimensions:
5.2 x 0.8 x 8 inches
Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.1 out of 5 stars
154 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#227,396 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book was unexpectedly, deliciously good. I was not all sure what to expect from the blurb, but I found myself smiling as I read and that is always a good sign.Harkaway sets up an improbable, more than a little ridiculous, premise of an island scheduled to be destroyed by fire because of the environmental disaster that it has become. Lester Ferris, aka "Tigerman" is the last representative of the British government on the island and really the lone sheriff in town. The plot is involved and complicated in places, but it is a story that plays out with tenderness, surprises and excitement as Tigerman works to solve a murder, adopt a local boy, fall in love and extricate himself from the beauty and weirdness that is Mancreu. There is international intrigue, global politics, petty local squabbles and the individual desire to do the right thing, to triumph and to survive.This is a fascinating and very different book. The writing is excellent. Definitely give it a try!
Nick Harkaway has the best imagination in the business. Until the last 40 pages of TIGERMAN, this was the book of the year - so incredibly clever, well written, insightful and brimming with energy and whiz-bang lunacy that most of the time I just sat there in awe, entertained at a ridiculous level. The story of a lonely colonial British NCO on a god-forsaken island in the Indian Ocean who befriends a comic-book loving young boy and tries to uncover the mysteries behind a murder, TIGERMAN is propulsive but deeply introspective, and filled with pop culture references that will warm the heart of the deepest geek but using language that will make the most literate amongst you smile. Without spoiling the book (which is so good, even with my issues regarding the end, that you REALLY should read it regardless of any flaws), I must complain about that ending, which I could see coming several dozen pages before the main character. For someone who is a true master of plot (and of looming apocalypse, as demonstrated in the also highly recommended GONE AWAY WORLD and (especially) ANGELMAKER) the "solution" felt a bit forced, a bit too...shall we say...comic book? In any event, there aren't too many writers that I will immediately read, whenever their next book comes out - and Nick Harkaway is one of them.
I have read Nick Harkaway's previous two books as well (The Gone-Away World and Angelmaker). It has the same wit and humor as his previous books, but this book also starts more quickly and is easier to get into than the other two. I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. I've always enjoyed books with espionage or fantasy/sci-fi elements, and from reading the plot outline, this book did not seem to have either. However, I enjoyed reading this book from cover to cover. The characters were developed well, allowing the reader to follow along and feel for them in various parts of the book. Harkaway tried hard in his first two books to fill in so much background that the books dragged; however, this book seems to move much better. Rather that putting the background information at the beginning, it is more interspersed as flashbacks, which makes for a much smoother read.If you want to give Nick Harkaway a try, this may be the better book to start with, and I think it's his best overall effort so far. As mentioned, I enjoyed his other two books, but unless you are patient, those books can drag at the beginning. This book moves very well and display's Harkaway's writing talents. Enjoy!
My local bookshop puts Harkaway under SF. Certainly the astonishing narrative twist of Gone-Away World required SF in its set-up, and there's some weird tech in Angelmaker. This one won't quite go there, despite the doomsday geology. It's a thriller about geopolitics, and the media, oh, and families, and it sort of spoofs the genre as well (there's a hurtling James Bond send-up, until Harkaway takes his tongue out of his cheek, to striking effect).The star comes off because Harkaway doesn't quite solve the issue of sending up transient celebrity culture without yoking himself to it. There's a splendid conjecture involving Megan Fox, Pippa Middleton, Benedict Cumberbatch and Harry Potter (no, I guess it won't slip past you unnoticed), which won't mean much if any of them stop being famous.But on the whole breathtaking stuff - read it.
Outstanding piece of fiction. There are SF elements but it is mostly about love and courage and using a guise to do what one might not otherwise have access to the threshold of credibility to do. I remember the Twilight Zone when the knick knack salesman on the street sold a customer a pen that leaked and picked winners from the racing form. At the end of the episode he sold the same client a pair of slippery leather shoes and said; "That is what --I-- need." I take my waking slowly and I learn by going where I have to go. NH took me just where I needed to go, this is what --I-- needed. I am deeply grateful to the author and cannot recommend it enough. It is a slam-bang riot of a fun-fest and dad is probably smiling and saying to his son what President Whitmore said to David Levinson; "Not bad at all."
A lawless setting with no hope for the future; a parentless prepubescent boy; a middle aged war veteran at loose ends; an entire fleet of nefarious activity condoned by world powers; and a shadowy king pin of mythic proportion. With mass entropy of the social order threatening, this novel could have been beyond bleak. But instead, Nick Harkaway's Tigerman resonates with tenderness and respect. Our protagonist is no mere comic book action hero with epic powers. Rather, he is an Honest man who seems surprised by his own willingness to do whatever it takes to protect the hope and innocense of a small boy.Elsewhere I have compared Tigerman with Louis de Bernieres' The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, in that both are adventures in fictitious settings written by British authors with keen wit and even sharper geopolitical insight. But whilst I trully loved and fully recommend de Bernieres' mystical South American series, Tigerman has so much heart that it stands in a class by itself.
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