Griffin is a master storyteller. He grabs your interest from the first page and never let's go. His characters are real and you come to love the heroes and hate the villains. This is at least the fourth time I have started reading the series. I highly recommend you become acquainted with this author. You will not be disappointed. ( )

Familiar characters are cast into the battles with Japan near Guadalcanal and parts of Australia. Strong characters and great writing interweave with real people and events. I particularly liked the idea that the Sgt who knows too much is assigned to a combat unit by unknowing. I chuckled because I've seen the effect of too much secrecy. The climax is weak because it doesn't tie anything together and involves only one or two characters. This seems typical with Griffin's [series] books--the individual books blend, at the end, into one long memory. ( )

Another outstanding entry in The Corps series by Griffin. The war in the Pacific is really heating up as familiar characters such as Galloway, Moore, McCoy, Dunn, and Pickering are further torn from their personal endeavors and cast into the battles with Japan near Guadalcanal and parts of Australia. With such strong characters and powerful writing, Griffin has added to one of the more memorable series I have yet tackled. ( )

More new characters introduced as the war winds on. Time overlaps from the previous books as a result of so many characters and story lines, and the women are eye-rollingly unrealistic, as usual. But a good series and great insights into the history of World War II in the Pacific. ( )

I den fjärde boken i vad som bäst som kan beskrivas som en biografi över marinkåren i USA har Griffin kommit till sommaren 1942. Han följer gamla och nya karaktärer under förberedelserna och utförandet av slaget vid Guadalcanal. Särskilt utrymme får också de som arbetade med MAGIC, informationen från de många japanska kodsystem som amerikanerna lyckats knäcka (och som i sig både måste utnyttjas och hållas topphemlig för att inte japanerna skulle bli misstänksamma och byta koder).

Som vanligt ägnar Griffin långt fler sidor åt karaktärerna och vardagslivet i marinkåren än åt strider och action –utan att göra den mindre spännande– vilket just skapar känslan av en närgående, historisk biografi. ( )