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The year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is readily available at the invasion of Tarawa, as the U.S. Navy commences the grand strategy of throwing her marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But nothing goes as planned as young Americans rise against fanatical defenders, who enjoy snipers, big guns, and human wave attacks from which there is absolutely no escape save death.
As blood colors the waters around Tarawa, Josh flounders ashore by using a floating graveyard of dead men and joins the survivors, determined to somehow wrest victory from disaster. Critically wounded, ,Josh expects to die. Instead, he is spun off using one of his greatest adventures when Sister Mary Kathleen, a Irish nun, nurses him back to health, then shanghais Josh, sidekick Bosun Ready O'Neal, and three American marines to several beautiful tropical islands invaded by a brutal Japanese warlord. Josh and his little band must decide whether to help the Sister fight the battle she demands, go back to Tarawa and the "real" war, or settle down in the romantic splendor of the South Seas.
Hickam expertly weaves the adventures of the hot-blooded characters tighter and tighter before Sister's secrets and sins are finally revealed during a horrific battle in the lair of the warlord. With an unbelievable eye for historical detail and the talent of an master storyteller, Homer Hickam offers another tour de force.
