Hickam's Josh Thurlow series never disappoints me | The Far Reaches (Josh Thurlow Series #1)

another Homer Hickam winner | The Far Reaches (Josh Thurlow Series #1) | Homer Hickam

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	• The Far Reaches (Josh Thurlow Series #1) Homer Hickam St. Martin's Griffin, 2008 - 320 pages average customer review:based on 22 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Informative, engaging and thought-provoking

I didn't want this book to end and perhaps, if I'm lucky, it won't, as it is the third in a series after The Keeper's Son and The Ambassadors Son. I'm glad I had already read the first two books, but the author weaves enough background into each story that doing so is not a necessity. The book traces the adventures, insights and unanswered questions of a cast of fictional but historically accurate characters during WWII in the islands of the South Pacific, as they deal with their personal struggles in the midst of the strange realities of war. I highly recommend each of these books, and look forward to reading more from Homer Hickam,

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Hickam's Josh Thurlow series never disappoints me

This latest installment in the Josh Thurlow series opens with the little-known battle of Tarawa and there we see yet another facet of Josh's personality, clearly warped by the bloody battles of the South Pacific. You can smell the cordite, hot steel, and blood of the landing on that hot spit of sand. I've read a few non-fiction books about Tarawa but Hickam brings it home to his readers as if we are actually there which is, of course, the value of fiction. If you know of the battle, you'll recognize quite a few of the real people who were there. Hickam clearly likes to do that, including JFK, Nixon, and Michener in his very much underrated The Ambassador's Son. This is the first part of the novel. From there, Josh, desperately wounded and ill, is shanghaied by a nun to an idyllic south seas island group where her terrible secret awaits Josh, sidekick Ready O'Neil and some Marines, also shanghaied. The awful truth of the Sister is not what was expected. Partially, yes, but the real secret, the deeper one, no - for it plumbs the darker parts of the soul. I think you have to be open to it to realize what it actually was. The characters are colorful, the dialog spot-on, the adventure remarkable. No, it's not Rocket Boys. It's Josh Thurlow and, as Josh would say, that's for sartain!

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another Homer Hickam winner

This is a good adventure read in the Josh Thurlow series on a par with earlier tales. Set in the war in the Pacific islands.

The year is 1943 and World War II in the Pacific rages on, with Americans engaged in desperate battles against a cunning enemy. Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow is on hand at the invasion of Tarawa, as the United States Navy begins throwing her Marines at island after bloody island across the Pacific. But nothing goes as planned, and young Americans go up against fanatical defenders.

As blood colors the waters around Tarawa, Josh flounders ashore through a floating graveyard of dead men and joins the survivors. Critically wounded, Josh expects to die. Instead, Sister Mary Kathleen, a pretty Irish nun, nurses him back to health, then shanghais Josh, sidekick Bosun Ready O?Neal, and three American Marines to a group of tropical islands invaded by a brutal Japanese warlord. Josh and his little band must decide whether to help the Sister ?ght the battle she demands, return to Tarawa and the ?real? war, or settle down in the romantic splendor of the South Seas.

With an incredible eye for historical detail, edge-of-your-seat writing, and the talent of a master storyteller, Homer Hickam delivers another page-turning tour de force.

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