MacArthur Must Die
About this ebook
“Wonderful, one of the great suspense stories of World War II” —Clive Cussler
Set during World War II, MacArthur Must Die is a "what-if" thriller in the great tradition of Eye of the Needle and The Eagle Has Landed, centering on a Japanese assassination plot against General Douglas MacArthur.
It is 1942 and Japan owns the Pacific. The speed with which the Japanese have captured vast territories in a few months makes the Nazi Blitzkrieg look plodding by comparison. Hundreds of thousands are taken prisoner as Americans in the Philippines and the British in Singapore are forced to surrender, and President Roosevelt orders MacArthur to escape from the Philippines to Australia, from where he can launch a counter-offensive—hence MacArthur's famous promise, "I shall return."
But what if the Japanese have no intention of allowing MacArthur to return to the Philippines or anywhere else within their freshly consolidated empire? And War Minister Tojo orders that MacArthur be assassinated: "MacArthur Must Die." The ingenious assassination plot—involving a submarine-launched, bomb-laden Kamikaze aircraft—is created in vivid, hair-raising detail while the action unfolds against a backdrop of dramatic historical events in the Pacific Theater of Operations that will place the reader convincingly close to the most devastating blow imaginable to the allied cause in the Pacific during World War II.
“A high-noon shootout in downtown Brisbane, which produces a denouement straight out of Higgin’s The Eagle Has Landed. As a native of his narrative’s Australian setting, Slater is [also] able to offer flashes of local color.” —Kirkus Reviews
About the author
Thriller writer Ian Slater lives with his wife in Vancouver, Canada. Born in Australia in 1941, he worked for the Australian navy as a cipher clerk in that country's Department of External Affairs, and as a defense officer in the Australian Joint Intelligence Bureau during the Cold War. After leaving Australia for further adventures he became a marine geology technician with New Zealand's Institute of Oceanography, undertaking many voyages in the Tasman Sea, the southwest Pacific and Sub Antarctic, and later in the northeastern Pacific for the Institute of Oceanography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. In 1977 he earned his Doctor of Philosophy degree in political science, and as author, playwright, and lecturer has taught a wide variety of courses in the humanities.
