Five days after launch, and I'm still trying to process this.

A Date with Infamy debuted on March 25 and hit #1 New Release in Military Strategy History on Amazon before it even went live. The Kindle page reads have been climbing every single day since, and the early reviews are rolling in from readers who get exactly what I was trying to do with this book.

This story started at my grandmother's kitchen table, listening to my uncles trade war stories over coffee and cigarette smoke. My great-uncle Frederick J. Gibson flew P-38s, P-39s, P-51s, and C-47s across the Pacific. He earned a Bronze Star, an Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, and ground combat credit at Iwo Jima. The protagonist of The American War, Fredrick "Jack" Gibson, carries his name and his spirit into an alternate 1941 where America breaks the Japanese codes and turns Pearl Harbor into a trap.

Writing this book took five years of research and fifty years of family stories. Seeing it find readers who care about the history as much as I do is the best feeling I've had since I typed the last sentence.

And speaking of what's next: Book 2, The Gathering Storm, is written, in final production, and available for pre-order right now. It picks up the six brutal months after Pearl Harbor, from the Philippine ridgelines to the largest naval gun battle of the Pacific War. If you liked where Book 1 ended, you're going to want to be ready when this one drops.

Thank you to everyone who bought, read, reviewed, and shared. Y'all are the reason this series keeps going.

A Date with Infamy: https://a.co/d/00wK5fgq The Gathering Storm (Pre-Order): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GTRZXZPY