The Neptune Strategy

Download or read book The Neptune Strategy written by John Gobbell and published by . This book was released on 2004-06 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944, the Allies have delivered a stunning blow to Hitler's Western Front. At the same time, Admiral Raymond A. Spruance's Fifth Fleet is poised to deliver a knock-out punch to the Japanese Navy in the Marianas and continue the Navy's island-hoping campaign all the way to Japan. But in the center of this world-spanning drama, a lone Japanese submarine, the I-57, headed for the U-boat pens in L'Orient, France, is on a mission of a very different kind. And on board is Todd Ingram, a prisoner of war. Ingram was given up for lost at sea but via top-secret code-breaking, the Navy brass discovers he is on the I-57. But they can't reveal how this was learned or that they even know it. So Ingram's close friend, Captain Jerry Landa, is put in charge of a covert "NEPTUNE STRATEGY" to save Ingram. But Landa can't help himself as he falls for Ingram's supposedly "widowed" wife Helen, while the top brass demands to know where the Japanese sub is going, who is in command-and what the I-57's ultimate mission really is. It's only until the I-57 makes a secret rendezvous with her sister ship, the I-49, in Madagascar's Antongila Bay, that Ingram learns this is not just a simple technical exchange mission between Germany and Japan. The I-57's mission has far more personal, and deadlier ramifications. Worst of all, Ingram discovers the sub's captain, Commander Hajime Shimada, plans to kill him before they reach L'Orient.