Book Description
Through seven books, Griffin's bestselling chronicle of
the Marine Corps has proven itself to be one of the country's
most enduring and popular series. But In Danger's Path is his
most absorbing story yet. Desperate to find someone to unite
the warring interests of General MacArthur, Admiral Nimitz,
and OSS chief Donovan, FDR puts Fleming Pickering in charge
of the OSS's Pacific operations. Immediately, two urgent
missions fall into his lap: to contact and rescue a band of
former American servicemen and their dependents on the run
from the Japanese in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia; and at the
same time, to set up a weather station in the Gobi to help
direct planned aerial attacks against Japan. Pickering has a
free hand to use whomever he pleases, and he is soon
surrounded by many of the Marines on whom he has come to rely
during the war: men like Ken McCoy, Ed Banning, Jake Dillon,
Ernie Zimmerman, and--much to his surprise--a certain
scapegrace pilot named Malcolm Pickering, his son. Together,
they will venture into terra very much incognita--and with
luck they may even come out alive... Filled with the
crackling realism, adventure, and rich characters that have
earned his novels such praise, In Danger's Path is further
proof, as Tom Clancy says, that "W.E.B. Griffin is a
storyteller in the grand tradition."
