Description: P.T. Deutermann author of suspense novels such as The Cat Dancers, The Firefly, Darkside, Hunting Season, Train Man, Zero Option, Sweepers, Official Priviledge, The Edge of Honor and Scorpion in the Sea
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Most Recent Book - The Last Paladin
It’s late summer in the western Pacific, 1944. The American Pacific Fleet is assembling for an amphibious assault on Saipan Island in the Marianas Group. The Japanese high command knows something is coming, but not exactly where. An Atlantic Fleet destroyer escort, USS Holland, along with five others, is moved from North Atlantic convoy duty to the Pacific. She arrives later than the other five, which draws the ire of the destroyer squadron commander at Tulagi, in the Solomons. As a result, she is sent out
While steaming independently in the middle of nowhere, she encounters a Japanese submarine and sinks it. Four days later, she sinks a second one. Her skipper believes he’s stumbled onto a Japanese submarine picket line, arrayed in the Philippine Sea to discover which way the Big Blue Fleet is headed and thus warn the Japanese fleet commander. The Tulagi squadron commander, somewhat embarrassed by his exile’s sudden success, sluffs off the DE’s captain’s theory, but then intelligence comes in from Pearl Harb