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"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.comAn 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…

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This is a beautiful story. Gojan Nikolich doesn’t just set the reader at the 1960s Korean DMZ, but rather enlists them into the US Army and puts them on patrol. Nikolich’s novel masterfully weaves together the tumultuous love story of SP4 Eddie Profar and a brothel courtesan with intense geopolitical tension, communist plots, and—possibly—a man-eating Siberian tiger.

With compelling characters and smart dialogue, Nikolich captures the chaos and danger of a world on the brink of another war.

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