FIGHT FOR THE TIGER: ONE MAN'S FIGHT TO SAVE THE WILD TIGER FROM EXTINCTION. By Michael Day, founder of the Tiger Trust.

1995 1st edition. 8vo (157 x 240mm). Ppx,374. Colour and b/w photographs. Blue boards, spine titled in gilt.

An insider's account of the fight against poaching and the tiger trade in the Far East. "While intelligence services around the world unite and vast sums are spent fighting the war against drugs and illegal weapons, there are no top secret agencies fighting the organised crime against nature. This highly dangerous investigative work is done by only a handful of individuals around the world. Michael Day is one of them. With an almost reckless disregard for his own safety, he regularly slips quietly behind the scenes using the latest covert surveillance technology to penetrate the defence of ruthless smuggling networks. ...Fight for the Tiger is an enthralling adventure; an essentially human tale of courage, ingenuity and determination that shows how one man, changing the direction of his life, survived death threats, disease and near financial ruin to delve deep into a gangster-dominated underworld, in a passionate struggle to save the wild tiger from extinction." As good as any crime novel.