Robert Conroy: Rising Sun

“Besides,” he continued, “most people consider you a hero. You’re the ex-Nazi who found redemption by helping us win the Battle of the Baja, even though it was more likely you were just protecting your own ass. Regardless, your real name is going to be plastered all over the place. I think you’d be a lot better off making the announcement yourself instead of being hunted down and trapped by a horde of reporters. Sooner or later, Krause, it’s going to happen.”

“True enough,” Krause said. “Are the people producing the book and the movie paying you for your efforts?”

“Quite a bit, thank you. Does your family know about your little secret?”

Krause sighed. “My wife knows and my late father-in-law did as well. I think my children suspect that there is more to their old father than meets the eye. They are both adults and not stupid. Not like their old man was.” He smiled.

“Are they here today?”

“Yes, and doubtless wondering who you are and what you want.”

“Want to call them and you can make your announcement? Then we can all talk.”

Krause stood. “I’ll do that right now. No point in waiting.”

“While you’re up, get me that damned beer.”

Robert Conroy is the author a run of hugely popular alternate history novels, including Himmler’s War for Baen Books. His 1942 , which is set within a Japanese conquest of Hawaii, won the prestigious Sidewise Award for alternate histories. Conroy has written for Military History magazine and has traveled extensively in Europe where he’s taken a special interest in battlefields, historical collections and castles. After a first career in business, Conroy has turned his lifelong passion for writing and military history into an immensely satisfying new occupation. He is married, lives in southeastern Michigan, and, when not writing, teaches business and economic history at a local college.

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This is a work of fiction. All the characters and events portrayed in this book are fictional, and any resemblance to real people or incidents is purely coincidental.

Copyright © 2012 by Robert Conroy

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Conroy, Robert (Joseph Robert), 1938–

Rising sun / Robert Conroy.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-1-4516-3851-6 (hc)

1. World War, 1939–1945—Naval operations, American—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Pacific Area—Fiction. 3. Pacific Area—Fiction. I. Title.

PS3553.O51986R57 2012

813’.54—dc23

2012033440

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