{"product_id":"b0gtrzxzpy","title":"The Gathering Storm: Book 2 of The American War","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe trap at Pearl Harbor changed everything. Now the bill is coming due.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\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\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is alternate history. The ships are real. The aircraft are real. The courage is real. The outcome is not.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBook 2 of  The American War  series. Book 1,  A Date with Infamy , is available now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery great story begins with family.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePraise for A Date with Infamy:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA superb read; I have already preordered the second book. I read a huge amount of Alternate History, and this is among the best I have encountered; it reminds me of the late Robert Conroy, one of my favorites. — Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the very first page, the author pulls you into a vivid and emotionally charged narrative that brings history to life in a way that feels both personal and profound. — Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis novel shows what might have happened if determined men were given a warning in enough time and enough resources to do something about it. Believable events, and gripping action. — Amazon Reviewer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e___\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe American War Series:\u003cbr\u003e\nBook 1:  A Date with Infamy  — Available Now\u003cbr\u003e\nBook 2:  The Gathering Storm  — Available Now\u003cbr\u003e\nBook 3:  The Deep Pacific  — Coming June 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso by Brian C. Thompson:\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Unnecessary War  — Book 1 of The European War — Coming May 2026\u003cbr\u003e\nThe American War  and  The European War  converge at El Alamein, July 23, 1942.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":54230708552043,"sku":"YSL26003","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/1674\/0203\/files\/71OE7hOmykL._SY1500.jpg?v=1792832843","url":"https:\/\/www.booktavero.com\/products\/b0gtrzxzpy","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}