 In his introduction to the 1980 reprinting of "Meet the Tiger" by Charter Books, Charteris all but disowned the work, stating "I can see so much wrong with it that I am humbly astonished that it got published at all" and dismissing it as an early work by a writer who was less than 21 years of age at the time.In a 1960s edition of "Enter the Saint", Charteris goes so far as to define "Enter the Saint" as the first Templar book, ignoring "Meet the Tiger".Nonetheless Charteris acknowledged that "Meet the Tiger" was an important work, if for no reason other than it launched the long-running series of books that became, effectively, his life's work.