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Robert Conroy is a mediocre writer who cranks out some occasionally interesting AltHistory books, unfortunately in a Readers Digest version of the Harry Turtledove method. In this AltHistory of the invasion of Japan, the historical figures are badly realized (especially Harry Truman) and the fictional heroes are so generic and cardboard it was difficult to tell them apart. Worse yet, the Japanese-American soldier turned spy is presented as the kind of bizarre personality who cracks jokes about rape but can kill a guy with one hand (which is all he has left) because he took “some Karate lessons as a kid.� It was interesting to read a WW2 AltHistory that wasn’t just another boring “what if the Nazis won?� trope, but between the endless exposition (mostly through dreary meetings and briefings) and the random insertion of facts for no apparent reason (like the dimensions, displacement, and armament of a submarine that appears for all of two paragraphs), it was hard to stay interested.