The characters are written with the assumption that they are white-odd for a book that takes place in the Philippines. I couldn't finish this book because of the paternalistic and problematic view of the Philippines. Can Gina keep this delicate operation running long enough to outlast the enemy, or is she on a sure path to defeat that will put her family, her freedom, or even her life at risk?Ĭolonialist claptrap. She’s risked everything to take a stand, but her club is a house of cards in the eye of a storm. But operating undercover in the spotlight has Gina struggling to stay a step ahead of the Japanese. There, she forges a new identity and opens a nightclub, where seductive beauties sing, dance, and tease secrets out of high-ranking Japanese officers while the wildly successful club and its enemy patrons help fund the resistance. Desperate for money, medicine, and guns, the resistance recruits Gina to join their underground army and smuggles her back to Manila. When the Japanese invade and her husband goes missing, Gina flees with her daughter to the Zambales Mountains to avoid capture―or worse. War has erupted in the Pacific, spelling danger for Gina Capelli Thorpe, an American expat living in Manila. Revised edition: This edition of A Pledge of Silence includes editorial revisions.From the bestselling author of A Pledge of Silence comes a story of resistance, intrigue, and risking it all in the WWII Philippines. At once an epic tale of a nation at war and the deeply personal story of one woman’s intense journey, A Pledge of Silence vividly illustrates the sacrifices the Greatest Generation made for their country, and the price they continued to pay long after the war ended. Ultimately captured, she is interned in Santo Tomas, a Japanese prison camp, where for three years she endures escalating danger, starvation, and loss. The US Army evacuates to the Bataan Peninsula, where she cares for the wounded soldiers in a field hospital, and then in a catacomb of tunnels on Corregidor Island.
On December 8, 1941, her dreamworld shatters when the Japanese invade the Philippines.
Though rumors of war circulate, she feels safe, trusting the island is fortified and the Filipino troops are well trained. 2014 Winner - Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award - General Fiction When Margie Bauer joins the Army Nurse Corps in 1941, she is delighted to be sent to Manila, the Pearl of the Orient.
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