The Tiger General, subtitled ''The Memoirs of a Vietnamese Intelligence Chief'', is a novel by

John Havan John Havan was born in Paris, France, in 1933. His Vietnamese father, a University of Paris, Sorbonne graduate in law, became Minister of Finance, Finance Minister under the administration of South Vietnamese President (government title), Presi ...

. It was first published in 2011, and is a sequel to the 2008 novel

Mandarin Mandarin or The Mandarin may refer to: Language * Mandarin Chinese, branch of Chinese originally spoken in northern parts of the country ** Standard Chinese or Modern Standard Mandarin, the official language of China ** Taiwanese Mandarin, Stand ...

The plot

The protagonist, ''Hai'', is the illegitimate son of ''Bach'', the protagonist of the preceding work. A born survivor, Hai continually re-invents himself under the French, Viet Minh and Japanese regimes. At thirty-six years of age, he comes into his own and his rise is unstoppable, emerging as the 'Tiger General' in the South Vietnamese Republic. The main part of the book is based on the communist Vietnamese spy, Pham Xuan An. who was a friend of the author many years.

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2011 novels English-language novels Novels set in Vietnam {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiger General