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Detective John Dean of the
LAPD, has a phobia…he hates cats.
Recently he has been having the strangest dreams, but his worst
nightmare is realized when he is forced to travel 2000 miles across
America in a station wagon with a 254lb tiger in the back and a gang of
desperate crooks in hot pursuit.
Is
it too late for the South China tiger?
Of
the five remaining tiger subspecies the South China tiger is the
closest to extinction with only around sixty remaining in
Chinese zoos!
Dr Beth Smith is a reproductive veterinarian specialist who has
dedicated her life to the plight of the South China tiger and putting an
end to the use of tiger parts in traditional Chinese medicines.
She travels to China and through the occurrence of frequent strange
dreams she is drawn to ‘Bi an dun’, the secret animal sanctuary located
somewhere deep in the Hunan provinces. There her dreams are partly
explained to her by the mysterious guardian ‘Huan Loh’, who is believed to be
a hundred and twenty years old!
She returns to Shanghai with a female tiger cub, rescued after its mother and siblings are killed by a ferocious male. The Chinese people take the tigress to their hearts and she is named: ‘Xiao Gong Zhu’ or ‘Little Princess’. Beth christens her ‘Zhu Zhu’, and seeks permission to bring Zhu Zhu—the rarest tiger in the world—to the LA Zoo. Remarkably the Chinese authorities agree. Tigermania sweeps America, and the world at last takes notice of the South China tigers plight.Detective John Dean’s nemesis Tony Lee, a pathetic ‘Bruce Lee
wannabe’ drug dealer, and his associate Raymond Brown, a psychotic
assassin, secretly have a hand in bringing the tiger to America, and steal
it across country.
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