{"product_id":"the-gathering-storm-brian-c-thompson-9798295814334","title":"The Gathering Storm","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trap at Pearl Harbor changed everything. Now the bill is coming due.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecember 1941. Six Japanese carriers lie on the bottom of the Pacific. America's first ace, Lieutenant Jack Gibson, is ordered off the flight line and onto a stage. The War Department wants a hero for the bond tour. Jack wants his cockpit back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile Gibson sells war bonds from San Francisco to New York, the war he helped start is accelerating beyond anyone's predictions. In a basement at Pearl Harbor, codebreaker Mikey Voss cracks open a captured Japanese codebook and begins reading the enemy's mail. In Tokyo, Commander Minoru Genda rebuilds a shattered naval air force from the ashes of Kido Butai. At Lockheed's Burbank plant, Kelly Johnson shows Jack a prototype with no propellers and an engine that sounds like the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Patton lands in the Philippines with the 2nd Armored Division, and the war on the ground becomes a war of mud, mountains, and Japanese soldiers who will not surrender.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the codebreaking vaults of Station HYPO to the cockpit of a P-38 Lightning over Luzon, from Roosevelt's war cabinet to Yamamoto's final gamble in the Philippine Sea, The Gathering Storm follows the men and women who fought the first year of a war that history remembers differently.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is alternate history. The ships are real. The aircraft are real. The courage is real. The outcome is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook 2 of The American War series by Brian C. Thompson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian C. Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798295814334\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Brian C. Thompson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.31lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"Brian C. Thompson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48483412803839,"sku":"9798295814334","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ac0e80a5-adaa-47dc-93eb-5e66ad9750dc.jpg?v=1778038624","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-gathering-storm-brian-c-thompson-9798295814334","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}