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Samurai & Snipers A World War II Thriller

By David Healey

First published 2025

Sniper Deacon "Deke" Cole finds himself thrust into one of the most brutal urban battles of World War II-the Battle of Manila, a fight so savage and unrelenting it earned the moniker "the Stalingrad of the Pacific." Unlike the dense jungles where American forces had previously battled the Japanese, Manila was a shattered cityscape of crumbling buildings and smoke-choked streets, where every block was a battlefield and every window a potential sniper's nest. As part of Patrol Easy, Deke and his squad must navigate the labyrinthine ruins, moving from street to street and house to house, contending with an enemy that refuses to surrender. Japanese forces, entrenched in fortified positions, turn the city into a slaughterhouse, where every step forward feels like crossing into the jaws of death. The sniper duels are every bit as harrowing as those fought in the jungle-only now, the confined quarters make them even more intense. In the ruins of Manila, there's no sprawling wilderness to blend into, only broken concrete and shattered glass, where a single mistake means instant death.

Published
3 Jun 2025
Pages
278
Publisher
Intracoastal Media
Edition
Paperback
Elsewhere
Open Library
  • Thriller
  • Mystery
  • War

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