I felt that the characters could have been developed a little more as at times I felt we were only getting a surface look at these people. The story was engaging and overall the book was very good. This author has a background of working in research and she did an excellent job of inserting her facts into the story in an interesting way that helped to move the story along. Gina struggles to stay one step ahead of the Japanese, she worries about her husband, a captive of the Japanese and her daughter who she left in the mountains in the care of her friend. She delights in the fact that the Japanese are both paying for the guerrillas and supplying information that she is able to pass on. Gina reinvents herself as an Italian expat and before long is running a nightclub that caters to the wealthy Japanese. Gina is dispatched back to Manila in order to help supply the group with money, medicine and guns.

Soon a small camp of Americans are living in the mountains and forming themselves into a resistance group. Gina and her daughter escape to the Zambales Mountains along with her best friend and her two daughters. Gina’s husband has been called to help the army on the island of Corregidor, and when the Japanese attack Manila, just 10 hours after Pearl Harbor, he is trapped there. It opens just before the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor and introduces Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat who lives in Manila with her engineer husband and small daughter, Cheryl. Solomon is a historical novel about the Philippine Islands during World War II. 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? … ( more)Īlong the Broken Bay by Flora J. She's risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. But operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of high-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemy patrons help fund the resistance. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture-or worse.

War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.

A pledge of silence by flora j solomon