Tiger’s Memory

The prequel novel about West’s first major assignment, his first girlfriend, and how it goes terribly wrong for him on both counts.

Before he was known as brutal operative Dale West, he was Suh Dae-il, a twenty-year-old rising star in the agency who escaped a North Korean prison camp five years earlier.  Charismatic, brilliant, and manipulative, he’s the perfect spy—right up until he’s assigned his first target.

Becoming the person who could convince a girl to flip on her family means submerging himself in another world entirely. If he disappears in this other persona completely, he risks losing his job, his purpose, and the people who gave him a new life after he fled hell; if he remains the operative beneath the surface, he could lose the girl he’s fallen in love with when she learns the truth about his subterfuge.

Either way it may not matter when agency operatives and their targets in the area are killed. Dae-il is in someone’s crosshairs—someone who shares his unique abilities and has no qualms about his girlfriend becoming collateral damage in a mission that will change the magical landscape of the entire world.

Tiger’s Memory is a 78K-word novel that was serialized from July 2017 through June 2018, exclusively for Patreon supporters at $10+. It remains available solely for download there.

Note: Due to someone (hi, Wendy from Australia!) pledging just to get this without paying for it (which is theft), in August 2019 I switched Patreon away from the honor system to having an up-front charge. If you pledge, you get charged right away, even if you cancel immediately afterward. There are also extra security measures at Patreon, such as sending the files manually. You cannot download them immediately upon joining.

Patreon is what has allowed me to continue the Livi Talbot series, and I had to make the change to protect my income. I encourage readers to join, but theft won’t be tolerated–and if you steal from me, or if you facilitate others to steal by uploading files elsewhere, you put the entire Livi Talbot series in jeopardy for everyone because I will not be able to continue publishing it. You will also put my career in jeopardy if I can no longer trust patrons not to distribute my files–if I have to leave Patreon, I will no longer be able to publish.