title: Forests of the Night (Cleary novel)
text: # Forests of the Night (Cleary novel)
  
  Forests of the Night is a 1963 novel from Australian author Jon Cleary. It is about a British plastic surgeon who visits his father in Burma and gets involved with a Catholic missionary, a killer tiger and a local rebel leader.
  
  Cleary visited Burma as part of his research.
  
  At one stage there were plans to make a film version with Dirk Bogarde but this did not eventuate.
  
  