French Guiana in the mid-19th century was a hell for convicts and political prisoners, a “dry guillotine” that turns people into barely living skeletons. But there are also those here whose will to live and character are only sharpened in the local suffocating climate, like the famous cayenne pepper. An important state criminal flees from the Saint-Laurent colony. The senior warden, always ready to fill any convict with lead, this time receives a strict order: “Take him alive!” An order is an order. Despite the thunderstorm, the henchmen and the dog set off on their journey. Little do they suspect that the hunt will not be easy, for the fugitive is a tiger-man. The next volume of “Masters of Adventure” includes the dashing South American Robinsonade by Louis Boussenard, “Fugitives in Guiana.”