By Colorado Kids Advisory Board member Sara LeFevre

Title: Lord of of the Kill
Author: Theodore Taylor
Illustrator: Theodore Taylor
Publisher: Scholastic
Number of Pages: 246

Ben Jepson is sixteen years old, and he knows the big cats better than anybody. But when a body is found in compound #12, Los Coyotes is thrown into chaos. Is it murder?

Later in the story, Ben's favorite tiger, Dmitri, the most valuable Siberian tiger in the world, is stolen and held for ransom. In their 72-hour race to find Dmitri, Ben and the staff discover stunning secrets about the Triads, including the murder of Billy Caspar. The story ends, well, I had better not tell.

In Lord of the Kill, Theodore Taylor tells of tiger medicine, little known canned hunts, in which exotic animals are killed ruthlessly for sport, and the horror of big cat hunts. 246 pages of suspense are guaranteed in Lord of the Kill. (December, 2002)