Edge of valor : a Todd Ingram novel
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Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014?].
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Published
Annapolis, Maryland : Naval Institute Press, [2014?].
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Book
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xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English

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Edge of Valor is the fifth thriller by John J. Gobbell featuring the World War II exploits of Cdr. Todd Ingram, commanding officer of the destroyer USS Maxwell (DD 525) who saves his ship when it is hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. For repairs, they pull into Kerama Rhetto, Okinawa, where they receive news of the war's end. Ingram expects to be shipped home like the rest of his crew but instead receives orders to fly to Manila, where he is met by Brig. Gen. Otis Dewitt, an Army buddy from his days on Corregidor who is now intelligence aide to Gen. Richard K. Sutherland, chief of staff to General MacArthur. On Ingram's C-54 are sixteen Japanese senior military and civilian diplomats who meet with Sutherland to discuss formal surrender arrangements. Two days later the terms are settled and Ingram is working with one of the Japanese delegates to ensure that mines laid in Tokyo Bay are neutralized, allowing for safe passage of more than two hundred Allied ships. While Ingram is promised that he can attend the surrender ceremony on board the USS Missouri (BB 63), DeWitt, in concert with the State Department, has an ulterior motive and sends Ingram to Karafuto (Sakhalin Island, according to Soviet maps) to defuse a Soviet attack on Hokkaido, the northernmost home island of Japan. Ingram's old adversary, Edward Dezhnev, is the brigade commander responsible for laying siege to a Japanese holdout garrison in Toro, a natural jumping-off place for an attack on Hokkaido. Also in Toro, DeWitt explains, is Walter Boring, a Red Cross representative holding two crates of overwhelming photographic evidence of Japan's experiments on live human beings in China. Ingram is expected to return with those crates, but how can he when Boring is being protected by the Japanese garrison in Toro, where Dezhnev and his troops stand ready to overpower them at any moment?

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Gobbell, J. J. (2014). Edge of valor: a Todd Ingram novel . Naval Institute Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gobbell, John J.. 2014. Edge of Valor: A Todd Ingram Novel. Naval Institute Press.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Gobbell, John J.. Edge of Valor: A Todd Ingram Novel Naval Institute Press, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Gobbell, John J.. Edge of Valor: A Todd Ingram Novel Naval Institute Press, 2014.

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