Against All Odds

The desperate battle to secure Guadalcanal still rages. The Marines have the upper hand, and they were moving fast to secure the island before the inevitable counterattack begins. For the Japs have not given up.

Reconnaissance aircraft spot a large Japanese force has landed on the island by stealth, and are making their way across. To retake the territory they lost to the Marines, and this time they will sacrifice as many troops as it takes to win.

Second Platoon, Company C, is out in front, carrying out a wide area sweep to locate the enemy. They stumble across more than they bargained for. The Japs are back in regimental strength. Three battalions are closing in. With a single company to fight them off, and Jesse Ferrell’s platoon led by a Second Lieutenant reluctant to dirty his hands with the grim business of war fighting, they know they are facing the end. A grim and bloody defeat, unless the Marines can turn things around with a miracle. Miracles that don’t happen in wartime.

Against All Odds is the fifth shortread novel in the ‘Heroes of the Pacific’ series of fictional war stories set during World War II in the Pacific. The book is a collaboration between Todd McLeod and Eric Meyer, the bestselling author of more than fifty war novels.


Genre: Thriller