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© 2014 by John J. Gobbell

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Gobbell, John J.

  Edge of valor : a Todd Ingram novel / John J. Gobbell.

       1 online resource.

Summary: “Edge of Valor is the fifth thriller by John J. Gobbell featuring the World War II exploits of Cdr. Todd Ingram. As commanding officer of the destroyer USS Maxwell, Ingram must save his ship when it is hit by a kamikaze on the last day of the war. After the war’s end, Brig. Gen. Otis Dewitt, an Army buddy from Corregidor and now an intelligence aide on MacArthur’s staff, takes Ingram to Manila on the same aircraft as sixteen Japanese diplomats. MacArthur’s staff and the Japanese envoys negotiate the terms for Japan’s surrender. DeWitt and the State Department then send Ingram to Sakhalin Island to defuse a Soviet attack on Hokkaido, where Ingram’s old adversary, Edward Dezhnev, is the commander laying siege to a Japanese command in Toro. Also on Toro is Walter Boring, a Red Cross representative with two crates of overwhelming photographic evidence of Japan’s experiments on humans in China. Ingram must return with those crates, but Boring is guarded by the Japanese garrison in Toro and is under attack by Dezhnev. Three weeks earlier Ingram had been fighting the Japanese, and the Russians were supposedly his friends. Now, he doesn’t know who to trust”— Provided by publisher.

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  ISBN 978-1-61251-520-5 (epub)  1. Ingram, Todd (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations, American—Fiction. 3. United States. Navy—Officers—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3557.O16

  813’.54—dc23

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