Tiger's Tail - by Gus Lee (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From the author of Honor and Duty and China Boy comes an ingenious thriller set in Korea in 1973--a gripping story of sorrow, corruption and redemption, with plenty of brawls to boot.

A career officer who trained at West Point. The number-one son of a hardworking Chinese family. A soldier still tormented by his tour of duty in Vietnam. Jackson Kan is a man caught in the middle of clashing worlds. Now Kan is bound for Asia once again, this time to the volatile demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. His objective is to track down a missing American investigator, also his closest friend. But in fact, Kan has no idea of the enormity--and the danger--of the mission that awaits him.

It turns out that the frigid, barren Korean DMZ is at the mercy of Colonel Frederick LeBlanc, known as the Wizard, a Bible-pounding zealot engaged in his own private, paranoid war on communism. Kan quickly uncovers the depravity and corruption of the Wizard's little empire. But only gradually does he piece together the explosive truth about LeBlanc's secret arsenal--a truth that burns like a fuse between Kan's missing friend and the fragile truce of the two Koreas. . . .

Praise for Tiger's Tail

"[Gus] Lee's narrative is irresistible."--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"A dazzling literary thriller."--Amy Tan

"In the manner of Malraux, Greene, and Le Carré . . . A wise and wrenching novel, beautifully told."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Review Quotes

"[Gus] Lee's narrative is irresistible."--San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

"A dazzling literary thriller."--Amy Tan

"In the manner of Malraux, Greene, and Le Carré . . . A wise and wrenching novel, beautifully told."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

About the Author

Gus Lee was a supervising deputy district attorney, an Army judge advocate, and a paratrooper. He was legal counsel to congressional investigations into military misconduct and won the Silk Purse Award and other distinctions for trial advocacy. He was the statewide trainer for California prosecutors, the deputy director of the California District Attorneys Association, and a senior executive for the State Bar of California. Now a full-time writer, he is married and has two children, and continues to be a trainer for the FBI, the Department of Justice, and a variety of business entities.