V For Victor
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ISBN: 0394568710 / Publisher: Knopf, December 1988
Sixteen-year old Victor--stuck in Alabama and dreaming of glory--experiences a dramatic coming-of-age as he is hurled into battle against the Nazis in his defense of the Southern coast against enemy invasion
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Alabama, 1942. The war is everywhere, but Victor--a sixteen-year old boy sent by his father to care for his dying grandmother on a lonely island in Mobile Bay--can only dream of it. Then he wakes one amazing night to a thunderous roar from the Bay, and watches as a thug burns his boat. He also discovers a decomposing corpse, witnesses a near-seduction . . . and sees the ominous shadow of an enemy submarine surfacing at night.Suddenly Victor is playing unforeseen roles--now hostage, now pursuer--in the perilous war at home. . . .
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