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    The Tiger Warrior
    The Tiger Warrior
    The Tiger Warrior
    Audiobook13 hours

    The Tiger Warrior

    Written by David Gibbins

    Narrated by James Langton

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The trail starts in the Roman ruins and leads to a shipwreck off the coast of Egypt. Soon the world's top marine archaeologist, Jack Howard, and his team of scientific experts and ex-Special Forces adventurers are pushing their way through the mysterious jungles of India, following in the footsteps of a legendary band of missing Roman legionnaires.

    Meanwhile, at a remote lake in Kyrgyzstan, a beautiful woman has found evidence of a secret knowledge that has cost the lives of countless seekers through the centuries. Over one hundred years earlier, Jack's great-great-grandfather returned from an archaeological expedition in India forever traumatized by what he'd experienced. And in order to lay the past to rest, Jack will have to unearth an artifact that might have been better left buried-and with it a power that some of history's most ruthless tyrants have sought in order to rule the world . . .
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateOct 13, 2014
    ISBN9781494574307
    The Tiger Warrior
    Author

    David Gibbins

    David Gibbins is the author of seven previous historical adventure novels that have sold over two million copies and are published in twenty-nine languages. He taught archaeology, ancient history and art history as a university lecturer, before turning to writing fiction full-time. He is a passionate diver and has led numerous expeditions, some that led to extraordinary discoveries of ten-thousand-year-old artefacts. David divides his time between England and a farm and wilderness tract in Canada where he does most of his writing. www.davidgibbins.com

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    • 4/5
      While this is Gibbins' fourth novel featuring Jack Howard and his trusty sideick Costas, this is the first I've read, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.The story is set in present day India and Afghanistan, but it switches back and forth between 2009 and 18th-century India, with a prologue set in Ancient China and during the time of Ancient Rome.Colonel John Howard, who is the main character's great-great grandfather, goes on one last journey before disappearing without a trace. Fast forward present day, and Jack Howard, the protagonist, will finally find out how and why. Along the way, he will be aided by long-time friend Costas, his daughter Rebecca, and a chock-full of other supporting characters.The journey takes Howard and his team from Egypt to India to Afghanistan to Kyrgyzstan and finally to China, with life-threatening dangers and major discoveries along the way. While this novel is really an archaeological fiction, I found it more akin to a treasure hunt adventure. But this is by no means a bad thing, since there is a lot of action throughout the book.The plot, while almost Indiana-Jones-esque, is interesting, and in depth detail is given to every location visited by the characters. One can almost feel the heat and humidity of the jungles of India, the arid dryness of desertic Afghanistan. The descriptions given are so precise, one could imagine themselves there with the characters. That's how immersive the plot is.The characters in themselves almost seem real to the reader. The camaraderie between Jack and Costas is palpable. Rebecca is her own person, eager to discover the world and having a natural talent for archaeology. Even the supporting characters are full of depth, with a personality and uniqueness of their own.However, there was some kind of disappointment. The title character, the so-called Tiger Warrior, member of a secret society that has existed for many generations, is only given a small part in the book, and his leader is never seen, only mentioned by the main characters. Even his demise, well, sucks.Overall, this is a great read, and although part of a series of books starring Jack Howard, works great as a standalone novel. I'm looking forward to read another novel by David Gibbins.4/5
    • 2/5
      David Gibbins' novel, The Tiger Warrior, reveals the author is an intelligent, educated and worldly man. The novel brims with historical and archaeological facts and theories spanning in time and place from the birth of the unified Chinese empire in 221 BCE to Caesarean Rome to British colonial rule on the Indian subcontinent to present day Afghanistan. Most of these facts and hypotheses are intriguing, and all are patently the result of Gibbins' commendably deep research, study and thought.Unfortunately, none of the above renders Gibbins a master of character, dialogue, or narrative pacing in the art of storytelling. With rare exceptions, his characters are uniformly dull. These characters do not converse with each other so much as they lecture at one another. They often speak for hundreds of words at a time in single stultifying paragraphs that frequently fill more than an entire page before being subjected to an equally bloviated and professorial response. Real people do not talk this way, and wading through lecture after lecture churned out by one flat character after another makes for tedious reading and slows the story to a crawl.Had Gibbins paid as much attention to character and dialogue as he did to his excellent research, this book would be enjoyable, rather than merely informative. He did not, and accordingly the novel reads far more like a textbook than a good story told well.
    • 2/5
      I didn't like this book as much as I did his earlier books. I thought there was too much time spent on insignificant details and not enough telling the story. Also, the ending was disappointing - there was no definite conclusion.