{"schema_version":"bf_book_companion_v1","release_id":"20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh","book":{"amazon_purchase_url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0307389049?tag=bookfrontier-20","asin":"0307389049","authors":["John Vaillant"],"book_id":"9780307389046","canonical_url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/the-tiger-0307389049","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780307389046.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","description":"NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A gripping story of man pitted against nature’s most fearsome and efficient predator. This \"travelogue about tiger poaching in Russia’s far east opens up a new genre ... [the] conservation thriller\" ( Nature ). Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates these extraordinary events, he gives us an unforgettable and masterful work of narrative nonfiction that combines a riveting portrait of a stark and mysterious region of the world and its people, with the natural history of nature’s most deadly predator.","forthcoming":false,"isbn13":"9780307389046","publication_date":"20110503","publisher":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","slug":"the-tiger","subtitle":"A True Story of Vengeance and Survival","title":"The Tiger"},"discovery":{"categories":{"all":[{"bisac_code":"JNF003130","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Big Cats","score":0.7029,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"NAT045040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Wilderness & Wild Places","score":0.6963,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037080","confidence_band":"medium","label":"21st-Century History","score":0.6906,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"hint":[{"bisac_code":"JNF003130","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Big Cats","score":0.7029,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"NAT045040","confidence_band":"medium","label":"Wilderness & Wild Places","score":0.6963,"source":"bisac_hint_model"},{"bisac_code":"HIS037080","confidence_band":"medium","label":"21st-Century History","score":0.6906,"source":"bisac_hint_model"}],"publisher":[{"bisac_code":"HIS032000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Russian History","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"NAT011000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Conservation","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"},{"bisac_code":"NAT042000","confidence_band":"high","label":"Big Cats","score":1,"source":"onix_publisher_code"}]},"genres":[{"label":"Big Cats","score":0.7029,"slug":"big-cats"},{"label":"Wilderness & Wild Places","score":0.6963,"slug":"wilderness-wild-places"},{"label":"21st-Century History","score":0.6906,"slug":"21st-century-history"}],"reader_fit":["Good for readers interested in true stories of wildlife and survival","Good for fans of narrative nonfiction about nature and human conflict"],"related_lists":[],"series":null,"similar_books":[{"authors":["Jon Krakauer","Randy Rackliff","Daniel Rembert","Caroline Cunningham"],"book_id":"9780385494786","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780385494786.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":24.7371,"title":"Into Thin Air","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780385494786"},{"authors":["John Vaillant"],"book_id":"9780525434245","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780525434245.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":24.56,"title":"Fire Weather","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780525434245"},{"authors":["John McPhee","Betty Crumley"],"book_id":"9780374514310","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780374514310.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":21.5458,"title":"Encounters With the Archdruid","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780374514310"},{"authors":["Michael Scott Moore"],"book_id":"9780062968678","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780062968678.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":20.4523,"title":"The Desert and the Sea","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780062968678"},{"authors":["Adam Higginbotham"],"book_id":"9781501134630","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9781501134630.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":20.3902,"title":"Midnight in Chernobyl","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9781501134630"},{"authors":["Ari Shapiro","HarperOne"],"book_id":"9780063221345","cover_image_url":"https://img.bookfrontier.com/9780063221345.jpg?v=20260514T080002Z-pairingsrefresh%3A2026-05-14T08%3A00%3A02Z","score":17.96,"title":"The Best Strangers in the World","url":"https://bookfrontier.com/books/9780063221345"}],"topics":[{"evidence_refs":["phrase_map_match"],"label":"Book Club","score":0.2237,"slug":"book-club"},{"evidence_refs":["keyword:true story books"],"label":"Story","score":0.1039,"slug":"story"}],"what_you_get":["Themes: man vs nature, survival, wildlife conservation.","Pacing: steady blend of plot and character.","Themes: Book Club, Story."]},"llm_signals":{"confidence":0.9,"pacing":"steady","reader_fit":["Readers interested in true stories of wildlife and survival","Fans of narrative nonfiction about nature and human conflict"],"themes":["man vs nature","survival","wildlife conservation"],"tropes":[]},"source_presence":{"amazon":true,"book_detail":true,"goodreads":true,"llm_signals":true,"similarity_seed":true},"stats":{"amazon_ratings_count":0,"goodreads_ratings_count":21704,"goodreads_reviews_count":2639,"quality_score":0.9677}}