The Deep Pacific: Book 3 of the American War

1942. The attack that was meant to break America in a single morning failed. The war it began did not.

A year later, the fighting has spread from Hawaii to the far edges of the Pacific, and the men who survived Pearl Harbor are learning the hardest lesson of the war: that winning it and surviving it are not the same thing.

Jack Gibson is no longer the unknown who painted his first kill over Oahu. He is one of the deadliest fighter pilots in the Pacific, the ace the replacements study, flying P-38 Lightnings over Guadalcanal, the jungle airstrips of New Guinea, and the burning anchorage at Rabaul. He has more victories than almost any man in the theater. What he counts now is the wingmen he brings home.

But the war is far bigger than one cockpit. In the codebreakers' basement at Pearl Harbor, analysts read Japan's orders before they reach the fleet. On Guadalcanal, a Marine named Marshall Fuller holds a strip of jungle with his rifle and his dead. In a California engineering bay, a grounded Charles Lindbergh wrings another hundred miles of range out of the Lightning. And aboard the battleship Yamato, anchored at Truk, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto stares at a war he planned and can no longer win, and puts an unthinkable question to his most trusted officers: how does Japan get out?

From Station HYPO to the foxholes of Guadalcanal. From the test strips of Burbank to the bomb run over the Bismarck Sea. From a fighter pilot who means to win the war to an admiral who only wants to end it.

The Deep Pacific is the story of the long middle of the war, the months when the outcome stopped being in doubt and the cost became the only question that mattered. It is paid, like everything in this war, in blood.

Book 3 of The American War, a six-book alternate history series set in the Pacific Theater. Inspired by Lt. Col. Frederick J. Gibson: Bronze Star, Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, Iwo Jima veteran.

Perfect for fans of Jeff Shaara, Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen, and Harry Turtledove.

The American War
Book 1: A Date with Infamy — Available Now
Book 2: The Gathering Storm — Available Now
Book 3: The Deep Pacific — Available Now
Book 4: An Angry Giant — Coming October 2026

The European War
Book 1: The Unnecessary War — Available Now
Book 2: The Burning Continent — Coming July 24, 2026

Both series converge at El Alamein, July 23, 1942.

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