Böcker av SJ Aspen

Lt John Knight returns to the New Guinea frontline. He now leads small teams of special forces soldiers, who operate behind the lines, in the fight against the Japanese. The war has turned for the Japanese with Allied forces slowly pushing them back. But they are hanging on and are not a spent force. Nothing has changed. It is still a fight to the death. But now the allies, including John's team, know how to fight the Japanese in the jungles of the Pacific. The Allies are no longer the pushover that they were at the beginning of the war. John and his team are always on their own, and a long way from help, when they take on the Japanese. John continues to rely on cunning battle tactics and ferocious gunfights to ensure his team is punching above their weight. But will this be enough to overcome superior Japanese forces? This is the third and final book in the highly popular Expendable Soldiers series.

It's 1942 and the Second World War's Pacific Theatre has started. John Knight and his soldier colleagues have escaped being prisoners-of-war of the Japanese. They established a Coastwatcher network who report on the Japanese from the islands of New Guinea. Since the war started, John's group of part-time soldiers have transformed into an effective group of killers. The group operates from a stolen Japanese gunboat and engage the Japanese on both land and sea while they continue to rescue people from the clutches of the advancing Japanese army. The group's unlikely successes have been recognised and they now also work with the army's special forces directly engaging the Japanese in high-risk missions behind enemy lines. John knows that capture by the Japanese means certain death. On the battlefield, the Japanese receive no quarter and John's group expect none from the Japanese. It is a desperate time and no one is playing by the gentleman's rules of war. John and his group have survived through stealth, innovation and ruthless efficiency but is that enough to survive the imminent invasion of New Guinea's capital? John's group need the luck of the Irish if they are to survive the war. This book is a sequel to the highly successful book, Expendable Soldiers: Invasion.