Tiger's Tail

Gus Lee

January 14, 1974. U.S. military prosecutor Jackson Kan is bound for Korea on a civilian passport - the better to make his way in-country, deep and dark, on the riskiest business imaginable. His destination is Camp Casey, a frigid and decrepit outpost on the brink of the DMZ, within spitting distance of North Korea's Inmingun: the fourth-largest, and definitely the angriest, army in the world. As for Jackson Kan, he's not angry yet, but there's plenty troubling him. A moment of brutal truth in the Vietnamese jungle seven years before still robs him of all peace, battering his heart with sorrow and guilt. The closest thing to relief he's experienced in those seven years, his relationship with a green-eyed woman named Cara Milano, hangs by a thread back in San Francisco. And the man he's charged with finding, an American investigator missing for an eternity of six days, is none other...

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