"When, a scant generation before World War II, the Japanese offered Zionist Jews Manchuria as a homeland, this little known event set in motion a series of surprising political allegiances and personal decisions which, when all seemed lost, changed the course of the war and brought the U.S. and its Allies a hard won victory..." For reader's report, click here.

S.L. Stebel has had six thrillers published, including The Collaborator (Random House, reprinted: Bantam), and The Vorovich Affair (Viking, reprint: Penguin greenback.) A veteran of five seaborne combat landings in the Pacific during World War II, he was on an attack transport sailing for the invasion of Japan in August, 1945, when the Atomic bomb was dropped. His maternal grandfather was Secretary to Herzl, founder of  Zionism. He is currently Adjunct Professor and Writer in Residence in the Masters of Professional Writing program at the University of Southern California.