Fiction
234 x 153mm
256 pages
Paperback

Voice of the Tiger is the story of Vince Tanner, a naïve young soldier in the New Zealand forces serving in Malaya during the end of the Malayan Emergency. Enlisting for adventure and romance, he finds love only to lose it and then himself to despair, drunkenness and lechery. Separated from his patrol, he discovers the loneliness of the jungle, its vast grandeur, and the charm of its amazing animals and of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal people of the rainforest. Though haunted by strange dreams, Vince finds comfort with two very different women; Amang, one of the Orang Asli and Wilhelmina, a plantation owner, and it is in the arms of these women he finally comes to terms with the depth of his love for Audrey, the woman he thinks he has lost for ever.

With guidance from a man’s spirit in a tiger’s form will Vince find redemption? And can he save the woman he loves from the gates of the underworld itself?


Markham Turner was born in Tauranga, New Zealand, in 1932. A fourth-generation Kiwi, he is now retired, but was previously a furniture maker, carpenter, technical teacher and soldier. He served in Malaya with the New Zealand Army for almost three years.

Enraptured by the first Asian country he had visited and the smiling charm of its people, he was to learn that the people of Southeast Asia have a smile for every occasion, including homicidal fury. He was delighted too by the beauty of the rain forest, the intriguing people to whom it is home and the jungle creatures with which they share it.