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Title: The Far Reaches

Author: Homer Hickam

Narrator: Mark Deakins

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins

Language: English

Release date: 05-25-07

Publisher: Books on Tape

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 37 votes

Genres: Fiction, Historical

Publisher's Summary:

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

Hickam expertly weaves the adventures of these hot-blooded characters tighter and tighter until the Sister's secrets and sins are finally revealed during a horrific battle in the lair of the warlord. With an incredible eye for historical detail and the talent of a master storyteller, Homer Hickam delivers another tour de force.

Critic Reviews:

"Hickam keeps the stakes high and the tension taut in this fast-moving historical." (Publishers Weekly)

Members Reviews:

A great follow on to the series

A very entertaining and historically base series of great stories that also show the gaps between cultures in the midst of WW II.