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    Along the Broken Bay
    Along the Broken Bay
    Along the Broken Bay
    Audiobook12 hours

    Along the Broken Bay

    Written by Flora J. Solomon

    Narrated by Sarah Mollo-Christensen

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    About this audiobook

    From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines.

    December 1941. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture—or worse.

    Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. 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.

    But operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. 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?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 1, 2019
    ISBN9781721374007
    Along the Broken Bay
    Author

    Flora J. Solomon

    Flora J. Solomon worked as a researcher and analyst in Michigan’s university system and health-care industry. She started writing after retiring and moving to the North Carolina coast with her husband. Her first novel, A Pledge of Silence, won the 2014 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award for general fiction and was selected as a Historical Novel Society Editors’ Choice. When not sitting at her computer creating stories, Solomon can be found on the golf course, on the tennis court, or—most naturally—at the beach.

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    • 5/5
      A gripping insight into life in the Philippines under Japanese rule during World War Ii
    • 5/5
      Great story and excellent narration. Nice that ir has a happy ending.
    • 5/5
      Philippines in December 1941. What could possibly go wrong? Along the Broken Bay does a good job of highlighting just what did go wrong. I had friends who lived through the horrors of Santo Tomas and the Japanese administration of the Philippines. I heard many stories growing up about the atrocities and the resistance of the people so I had a good grounding in the basic story line of this book. Ms. Solomon does a good job of introducing what went on to anyone who has an interest in the War in the Pacific. Because of the time compression of the story, some things are brushed over, but the ground work is there for further exploration if one so desires. As a novel I found the main characters engaging and the plot line moved along well. I would gladly recommend this book to others who have an interest in WWII and what happened in the Philippines.
    • 4/5
      Along the Broken Bay by Flora J. Solomon is a historical novel about the Philippine Islands during World War II. 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. 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. Gina and her daughter escape to the Zambales Mountains along with her best friend and her two daughters. Soon a small camp of Americans are living in the mountains and forming themselves into a resistance group. Gina is dispatched back to Manila in order to help supply the group with money, medicine and guns.Gina reinvents herself as an Italian expat and before long is running a nightclub that caters to the wealthy Japanese. 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 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. 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. The story was engaging and overall the book was very good. 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. Overall, I enjoyed Along the Broken Bay and would recommend it to anyone who wishes to read about the invasion of the Philippines during World War II.