Final Harbor (The Silent War Book 1)

Final Harbor (The Silent War Book 1)

A DEADLY GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK<br /><br />She was a monster, sleek and gleaming, designed to strike without warning like the dreaded shark. She was the USS <i>Mako</i>, as fearless and bold as any submarine that ever prowled the blue Pacific. Her mission: seek out and destroy the hitherto invincible ships of the Japanese Imperial Navy — and revenge the earlier defeats of a long and dirty war.<br /><br />Here is the story of the men who pitted their lives against impossible odds in the most dangerous branch of the American armed services. It is a story of men pushed to the breaking point and beyond in the most nerve-wracking, heart-stirring warfare of all. A story of glory, grit and guts, and of the astonishing resources that human beings call forth when put to the ultimate test.<br /><br />Author Harry Homewood was a qualified submariner before he was seventeen years old, having lied to the Navy about his age, and serving in a little "S"-boat in the old Asiatic Fleet. After Pearl Harbor he reenlisted and made eleven war patrols in the Southwest Pacific. He later became Chicago Bureau Chief for <i>Newsweek</i>, chief editorial writer for the <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i>, and for eleven years had his own weekly news program syndicated to thirty-two PBS television stations.