Why read Tiger Season?

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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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2 authors picked Tiger Season as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Paul Jantzen

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War is hell, and so is syphilis.

Not a single word in Gojan Nikolich’s novel, Tiger Season A Novel of Korea, is wasted. This is a fabulous example of how poetic prose should be. Nikolich has an incredible knack for description without ever over playing his hand or slowing the story with unnecessary detail.

The novel drops the reader dead center into Eddie Profar’s life as he lie dying(I'll never skip a prologue again) before we are thrust into his own personal hell, his experience during the Korean war. A love story, ravaged by war, ends how it…

From Paul's 3 favorite reads in 2026.

Cam Torrens

Author

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.

From Cam's 3 favorite reads in 2024.