"The dawn still comes even if the rooster dies."
"A haunting, nerve-wracking tale set in the eerie landscape of the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ)." -BestThrillers
An American soldier's life spirals out of control after he makes a fateful discovery on the Korean DMZ and then falls in love with a beautiful brothel courtesan whose tragic past becomes entwined in a volatile confrontation with Communist North Korea.
It's the 1960s, the Vietnam conflict is raging, and a delicate Korean armistice threatens to fall apart at the world's most dangerous border, pushing the US toward the brink of another war in Asia. With his life in danger, GI Eddie Profar must decide if he should reveal his startling secret, which has already caused the deaths of two people. His infantry sidekick, the weed-smoking Korean-Russian eccentric Yevgeny Lee, believes he has the answer to the diplomatic crisis.
Together, the two soldiers become reluctantly entangled with a sinister sex trafficker, a corrupt government-sanctioned red-light district, and a mysterious madame whose retribution for past wrongs may have international consequences.
To complicate matters, a man-eating 500 lb. Siberian tiger is on the prowl, who believes everyone is trespassing on her land.
From the award-winning author of The Gopher King and Ashes in Venice comes this psychological military saga of enduring love and fate set against the controversial and fragile aftermath of the Korean War.
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 22 mm
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978-1-68513-500-3 (9781685135003)
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Gojan Nikolich is a former newspaper reporter and editor and has written for the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, and Pacific Stars and Stripes. He also reported for WGN and WBBM radio. Abandoning a cushy executive career in public relations, he dragged his family to the Rocky Mountains, took a 50% pay cut, and worked with his wife as owners of a 100-year-old weekly small-town newspaper. He now writes books in his Denver basement.Nikolich's novel Ashes in Venice was chosen Best Psychological Thriller of 2022 by BestThrillers.com. "...his prose is entrancing," Kirkus Reviews said of his Vietnam War novel, The Gopher King. He graduated with a B.A. and M.A. in English Literature from DePaul University and served as a decorated U.S. Army sergeant with the 2nd and 4th Infantry divisions.
