Shattered Jade - by Larry Alexander (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

From New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander comes a gritty historical novel of World War II, told through the eyes of soldiers on both sides of the firing line.

Tarawa was hell but Saipan is worse.

For Sergeant Pete "Hardball" Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island toward an invasion of the Japanese homeland.

But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man.

In vivid, startling detail, Shattered Jade explores the strategy and horror of battle in one of World War II's most brutal conflicts and illuminates the extraordinary courage of ordinary young men.

Review Quotes

"Alexander hurls the reader into the white-hot swirl of combat...[With] both Japanese and American characters, the alternating points of view offer a multidimensional feel to the conflict. Military fiction addicts will happily find their fix here."

"In his much-awaited sequel to 76 Hours: A Novel of Tarawa, New York Times bestselling author Larry Alexander takes hard case Marine Sergeant Pete Talbot and his Dog Company comrades from that blood-saturated atoll to the deadly fields, hills, and city streets of Saipan. Little do these Marines know it, but their presence will culminate in the largest and most desperate Japanese Banzai attack of World War II, codenamed Gyokusai or 'Shatter the Jade.' Scrupulous research and outstanding combat action--and characters you actually care about on both sides--puts the reader into the heart of the action."