Guerrilla!

Product Description
In the early days of WWII, Lieutenant Loren Middleton and his crew prepare to join an infantry battalion on Bataan, in the Philippines, after their Motor Torpedo Boat's engines break down. At the last moment, they are able to repair the MTB and escape to Mindanao, where they run intelligence missions for the O.S.S. Loren lives with Tomi, a young Filipino girl. When she becomes with child, Loren and her father send her away to safety. Discovered by the Japanese, the navy men fight a spectacular battle and escape to Leyte, where they continue to work for the O.S.S.After liberation, Loren continues in the O.S.S. He and the nurse Beverly, who was with them in the Philippines, marry. After the formation of the CIA, Loren becomes the liaison to the Philippine Government. Beverly miscarries and suffers bouts of depression, eventually going to a sanitarium. In the Philippines, open warfare has broken out between the government and the communist dominated Huk guerrillas. Loren develops a strategy to defeat them.
He and his CIA team drop behind enemy lines in the mountains of Luzon to target the Huk formations. In an enormous ground and air battle, the government forces destroy the Huks.
Bev has recovered from her bouts of depression, but Loren and Maria, the daughter of one of his wartime comrades in the Philippines, have fallen in love. On Mindanao, he finds Tomi and their daughter, Nita. Nita comes to live with Bev and Loren in the U.S. He and Maria say their painful goodbyes. Ten years later, when Nita is graduating as the valedictorian of her high school class, the participants look back on their lives.
About the Author
The author, Warren Littleton spent many years working in the intelligence community and the Department of Defense. His military experience was with the Marine Corps where he served in Japan and Korea. He has lived in Australia, South Africa, and the U.K., and has traveled extensively in Europe, and Africa.
He has previously published "The Knights of Malta," about World War II, and "The Cajun," a story of Southeast Asia.
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The navy men dashed for the road on the dead run, their grenade bags banging against their ribs. They could still hear fire from Buchman's team as they dove for the deep drainage ditch alongside the road. With weapons loaded and ready at their side, they spread out ten feet apart and took grenades from their packs. Loren heard the sound of a laboring truck engine and then the truck came into view on the road.
"Get the Japs on the trucks!" he whispered hoarsely. "Don't let a single one get off into the jungle!" The truck lurched toward them. The troops riding in the bed were in obvious disarray. Loren was first to throw his grenade. It blew up under the vehicle, setting it on fire. He leveled his Thompson at the truck bed and pulled the trigger. He saw the Japanese troops go down before his fire. The troop truck, struck by additional grenades, careened off the road and turned on its side. Another grenade landed in the truck bed and exploded.
The second truck was upon them, traveling at high speed. Loren's next grenade went into its bed. Fire from down the line hit the truck's cab, shattering the windshield, while another grenade blew off the front wheel. The truck ground slowly to a stop, repeatedly rocked by the explosions of grenades thrown from the ditch. Nothing moved. Loren raked the truck bed of the second truck with machine gun fire. They heard cries of agony and then there was silence. A fire burned in the engine compartment, which triggered a large explosion as it reached the gasoline. A quick examination revealed no survivors. Just as well, Loren thought. They would have had to die anyway. Then Buchman's fire team sprinted up to them on the road. Don looked at the carnage around them and then turned to Loren. "We got the other truck. Two casualties, fatal." Loren looked down the line