The Japanese occupation of Manila (the Philippines) turns her world upside down and she learns to survive on almost nothing. When the book opens she lives a privileged life with cooks, maid and nannies. Gina is a great character and completely changes through the course of the book. This offers a different story about WWII. I don’t often read fiction about WWII so this book was well outside my comfort zone. (Lake Union Publishing, 1 July 2019, ebook, 393 pages, bought from Amazon First Reads) Can Gina keep this delicate operation running long enough to outlast the enemy, or is she on a sure path to defeat that will put her family, her freedom, or even her life at risk? She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. High-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemyīut operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. Nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of There, she forges a new identity and opens a Medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground armyĪnd smuggles her back to Manila. Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an AmericanĮxpat living in Manila.
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