Dillon's War - The Weretiger of Kontum

Deep in the jungle a soldier is confronted by a tiger for what will become a life-changing experience. Fighting in Vietnam, Mike Dillon never dreamt a tiger's bite would be the catalyst to release him from the civilized world and free the wild creature dwelling dormant within him. The Weretiger of Kontum. It begins with Mike Dillon's birthing on the back seat of a cab outside the hospital. His southside Boston family has its own struggles as they try to make it in a world soon torn by world war. Young Mike finds himself drawn into the world of animals, but nothing prepares him for what he experiences after his near-fatal encounter with the tiger. Woven from the sights and sounds of the author's experiences during the Vietnam War, Richard A.M. Dixon's story Dillon's War: The Weretiger of Kontum explores the consequences when the wild creature residing inside one man surfaces. Can the man-beast pair make it individually or do they need each other to survive?

About the Author

Richard A. M. Dixon was born in Massachusetts and later emigrated to the Pacific Northwest where he learned to survive and thrive with the forest wildlife. After completing a machinist apprenticeship at Boeing, he attended classes and graduated with a bachelor of science degree from the University of Washington and was commissioned in the regular army. He met and married his wife, Brenda, in Columbus, Georgia, while attending Infantry School. Together they produced three children, now grown with families of their own. Dixon served twenty-three years in the Army, fifteen of them on parachute status. Two years were spent in Vietnam, where he was inspired to write this story by his service among the Montagnard tribes and his occasional encounters with that extraordinary beast the Indo-Chinese tiger. He went on to earn a master's degree in military arts and sciences at the Command and General Staff College. He began writing as a technical writer in the Army and is credited with several training manuals. His first major effort at writing a book, My Heroes Have Always Been Dogs, a nonfiction story about five dogs that influenced his family's life, came after retirement from the service and was published in 2008. He has had numerous articles and some short stories and poems published. He and Brenda have enjoyed nearly fifty years of marriage and now live on the Key Peninsula, near Tacoma, Washington, with their golden retriever, Sandy.

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