Fiction

The Last Lieutenant

Name: The Last Lieutenant
Author: John J. Gobbell
ISBN: 9780312958381

by John J. Gobbell

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Overview

OUTNUMBERED

Under an unstoppable barrage of artillery, brilliant U.S. cryptographers crack the Japanese top-secret code, revealing their chilling plans for a doomsday attack on Midway Island.

OUTGUNNED

The Navy's high command responds quickly, mobilizing all they have to counter-attack the massive Japanese firepower. But there is a mole among the code-cracking team-a ruthless, cold-blooded Nazi spy on orders to stop at nothing in aiding the Japanese.

BUT NOT OUTSMARTED

Enter Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram-the man the mole didn't count on. As the Japanese ravage the South Pacific, Ingram must escape the onslaught-and stop a traitor who has the power to turn the tide of war toward the land of the rising sun.

In the heart-pounding tradition of Eye of the Needle comes a thriller full of raw courage, non-stop action, and an unforgettable villain.

To coincide with the 50th anniversary of VJ Day, Gobbell offers an unforgettable World War II thriller. May 1942: On Corregidor Island, the last American outpost in the South Pacific, Navy Lt. Todd Ingram refuses to give up the fight when General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese. Maps.

About the Author, John J. Gobbell

John J. Gobbell was inspired to write The Last Lieutenant after reading John H. Morill II's 1943 true-life account of his escape from the Japanese, South from Corregidor.

Gobbell, a former navy lieutenant and author of The Brutus Lie, saw duty in the 1960s as a destroyer's weapons officer. His ship served in the South China sea, granting him membership in the exclusive "Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club." He has his wife, Janine live in Newport Beach, California.

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Editorials

Roland Green

Gobbell takes an actual incident--the voyage that a handful of U.S. Navy survivors of the fall of Corregidor made from the Philippines to Australia in 1942--and turns it into a consistently absorbing historical thriller. Lt. Todd Ingram and his distinctly motley crew must simultaneously survive, rescue friends in danger, and guard the vital secret of the U.S. Navy's code-breaking efforts, which a German spy threatens to reveal to the Japanese. The action is continuous, the characterization well above average (even sparked by touches of wit), and the sense of place and time strong. Noteworthy, too, are Gobbell's implicit tribute to the role of the Filipinos in resisting the Japanese and helping Americans escape and the stark realism of his treatment of the fall of Corregidor.

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One part Eye of the Needle and one part From Here to Eternity, this WWII thriller captures the heart and soul of those who fought to stop worldwide fascism in the depths of the Pacific. "Epic adventure in the grand tradition..."-- Stephen Coonts.