Claws

Ozzie Cheek

When twenty-three lions, tigers, and ligers - a giant, hybrid cat - escape in rural Idaho, town officials decide to hold the first safari in America. Only police chief Jackson Hobbs, a man haunted by memories of a tragedy, and Katy Osborne, the sole white female hunting guide in Africa, seem to realize the danger of this decision. With the town desperate for money, Jackson's ex-wife, the mayor, and her boyfriend, a banker, are adamant that the Idaho Lion Hunt go forward even after people are killed. As the deaths mount and his own family is put at risk, Jackson must cope with a town doubled in population, deal with the dangerous cats, uncover the mystery of who engineered their escape, and investigate the activity of a local, anti-government militia. A willful teenage daughter, an animal rescue group, a missing little boy, a dead State Trooper, and Katy's desire to save a rare liger named Kali all add to the complications. Betrayal blossoms alongside romance as the story drives to the final showdown.

"Intensely atmospheric, Ozzie Cheek's Claws employs clarity and precision to reveal a rich panorama of a small town entrapped by a big time disaster."
- Keith Abbott, author of Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: a Memoir of Richard Brautigan.

"Claws is a tremendous read. Well-written and scary. A lethal combination. I suggest you do what I did, and read it in the daytime. Nighttime reading was too scary."
- Nancy De Los Santos, Writer

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"Intensely atmospheric, Ozzie Cheek's Claws employs clarity and precision to reveal a rich panorama of a small town entrapped by a big time disaster."
- Keith Abbott, author of Downstream from Trout Fishing in America: a Memoir of Richard Brautigan.

"Claws is a tremendous read. Well-written and scary. A lethal combination. I suggest you do what I did, and read it in the daytime. Nighttime reading was too scary."
- Nancy De Los Santos, Writer

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Ozzie Cheek wrote his first story when he was in the fifth grade. He knew then that he would be a writer, but his life took detours, and he was in his midthirties before he started to write full time. Prior to this period, Cheek attended a Methodist seminary to study for the clergy, taught high school English, lived in a commune in New Mexico, heeded the generational call of sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll, and somehow still earned a master’s degree in communication and a master of fine arts degree in creative writing.

Cheek moved to Los Angeles in the 1990s and found work as a staff writer on a TV series. He wrote movies for HBO, Showtime, NBC, CBS, and Fox, and wrote and produced the TV movieKiss Tomorrow Goodbye.

Cheek’s fiction includes the thrillerClawsand the literary novelWhite Boy Blues, and he is the coauthor ofWhy Planes Crash(2011), the memoir of an aviation disaster investigator.

An avid traveler, Cheek follows baseball and basketball, has been a Shambhala Buddhist meditation practitioner for years, and reads constantly and widely. He divides his time between coastal Maine and Los Angeles.

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When lions and tigers escape in rural Idaho, town officials, in need of revenue, hold the first lion hunt in America. What nobody counts on are two giant, artifically bred ligers also freed. Hunters flock to town, but unlike deer or elk, ligers do not run from hunters. As more people are killed, it's up to police chief, Jackson Hobbs, and a female, professional hunting guide from Africa, Katy Osborne, to stop the monster cats.

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