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hmmm.. not sure. I don't think it was part of a series, also the covers look different than I imagine and I didn't read any titles that would match. I don't think the cats lived in clans called after the elements.. also they weren't really wild cats, just normal house cats and some strays. And it was really more adult- than pre-teen-targeted. But I'll look into this some more.
EDIT: definately not it, the first book was released in 2003. That's too late. I read it around 2000.
Edited by alamanI haven't actually read them, but I believe there are two books by an author named Gabriel King called The Wild Road and The Golden Cat. They feature cats and seem to be fairly adult-oriented. From the Amazon synopses, there are indeed plots about one cat's kittens and an evil human. I believe they were both published in 1999 or thereabouts. Might it be one of them? (Or maybe they were published together in one volume sometime?)
That's it, thanks a lot! "In the first novel a human character simply named "the Alchemist" is portrayed very much like a research scientist gone mad with lust for torturing animals. One of the main characters, Cy, is a young female that escapes a research facility with an electrode still stuck in her head, causing her to have epileptic seizures and other brain disorders. In The Golden Cat we are privy to a research lab where cats are held constantly immobilized until they develop severe "bedsores" and one cat has an eye surgically removed". Nightmare fuel, I tell you.

I'm searching for a book that I read about 10-15 years ago. It might have had something with 'golden path' in the title, but I can't find anything when I google that, so maybe I'm remembering this wrong. The cover might have been yellow or gold. It was pretty thick, maybe around 500-700 pages?
It was kind of a cat mystery thriller, but with some really adult content. Think 'Felidae' with some spiritual and weird themes. There wasn't a real protagonist, just a bunch of cats, switching between them. Though there was one female cat, maybe she was pregnant, with special significance. I remember some fucked-up stuff like one cat which had some kind of antenna in its head which could sometimes control it and cause it terrible pain. There was also some human experimenting with cats, in one part a cat was put into boiling water alive and it was described in detail how it had seizures and was cooked to death, which pretty much traumatised me. I was still a child and my parents had bought the book for me without knowing what it was about. :D But otherwise humans didn't play a big role in it. One more scene I remember: a bunch of cats living on the street, licking the fat off fast food packagings lying around to survive.
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