Lord Tyger

A crazed millionaire named Boygur has, in an effort to reproduce the Tarzan novels he loved as a child, purchased a young English nobleman (Tyger) and created a complex series of jungle environs for him to live within.

He hires two dwarfs to act as his ape parents, and has two huge black helicopters (Tyger's "giant birds") patrol the area to keep outsiders out, and insiders in.

Tyger cannot handle the harshness of his newfound reality, and Boygur is shocked and appalled when the jungle superman he has raised is far from innocent.

While many admired the creativity of Farmer's premise and his exploration and rethinking of Burroughs' Tarzan mythos, others condemned the book for its sometimes graphic content.

[1] Algis Budrys declared Lord Tyger to be "an entertaining, rich, inventive adventure novel in the best sense, with its most lyrical passages far surpassing any effect Edgar Rice Burroughs was ever able to achieve.