The White Tiger is a 1987 novel by Robert Stuart Nathan.

The story takes place in China, after the rule of Mao Zedong.

Lu Hong, a policeman in Beijing finds himself in trouble after the death in strange circumstances of his mentor, Sun Sheng.

Sheng was a friend of Hong's parents, and originally met them during the Long March with Mao Zedong from 1935 to 1948.

He begins to look for the true story of what happened forty years ago, when his parents, Sheng and the Three Tigers were in the city of Yan'an with Mao Zedong.