Kirjahaku

In 1954 on the remote jungle battlefield of Dien Bien Phu, the communist Vietminh defeated French Colonialism. The pursuing peace was only a pause between conflicts on the Indochinese Peninsula, sustainable peace a myth. Beneath the surface of perpetual wars, Corsican syndicates, Vietnamese gangsters, and the CIA postured for control of the Laotian opium trade. American puppets under an anti-communist banner, exploited the populous. Communist extracted a heavy penance from Western collaborators. Winning hearts and minds competed with death's harvest. Crawling out of the French garrison Isabelle, Max Kohl a German in the French Foreign Legion plunges into this lethal world. As a boy soldier of the Third Reich, his Nazi mentors taught him the military skills to survive. Haunted by past anti-Semitic sins, he drifts on the tides of continuous Indochina conflicts.

In Thailand in the early '80s, American veteran Reno James exists untethered in an expat world of sunny beaches, cold beer, and beautiful girls. Intent on padding his bank account to secure his place in this exiled paradise, he jumps at the chance to profit from an illegal weapons venture and finds himself caught up in the Sri Lankan civil war. Exposing the underbelly of the religious conflict, Feeding the Tiger follows Reno and his fellow battle-scarred expats-surfer and former CIA assassin Longboard and one-legged former Airborne Ranger Raymond Marshall-as they try to expedite the arms deal so they can pay back the notorious Chinese triad that helped them get the contract. In war-torn Sri Lanka, however, things take an unexpected turn when Reno meets recently divorced Sandy, a Dutch surgeon volunteering with Doctors Without Borders. Separated from his partner, Longboard reverts to his training to get out alive. Meanwhile, back in Thailand, the triad is getting restless for its money. But when the triad goes a step too far, Reno and his fellow expats, schooled in search and destroy, devise their own special formula for retribution.