Flower Of The Pacific [Paperback]

This novel about WWII begins at Pearl Harbor shortly before the Day of Infamy & Iris Hashimoto, a Nisei born in San Francisco, travels to Japan to vist her relatives and gets trapped there & she winds up as a kind of double agent Tokyo Rose & [McGraw Boldt] balances Iris' bouts of culture shock with credible battle scenes. Washington Post

So well-plotted and executed, the characters are so finely drawn, interesting and realistic, the research is so meticulous & marvelous, enduring. Patricia Gallagher, author of No Greater Love