num_pages: 328
description: Leon Cooper was a young US Navy officer who spent three years in the Pacific during WWII. Like others in the GreatestGeneration, he was prepared to do his duty in the defense of his country, but his stand-up nature brought him into conflict with Captain Boda, the commanding officer of the ship on which he served. Captain Boda was a ?Mustang, an enlisted man of many years of service who received a Battlefield commission.Boda bore a deep resentment toward gentlemen officers like Cooper who were commissioned after only 90 days training.Boda's sociopathic behavior,including his reckless commands resulted in the deaths of a number of Cooper's shipmates. This heightened the conflict between the two men. Cooper's penchant to stand firm angered the Captain to the extent that he plotted to have Cooper killed during the course of the six invasions of Japanese-held islands in which Cooper was a major participant. Cooper tried unsuccessfully to persuade the Navy High Command to take action against Boda, but wound up getting himself in a worse position with the Captain.After his discharge from the service Cooper was still beset with a burning need to wreak vengeance upon the murderous Boda, even resorting to an abortive attempt to kill Boda - now an Admiral aboard the Presidential yacht, the Potomac. When Cooper finally stumbled upon the means to give Boda his just deserts, he was thwarted by a death-bed promise to his wife to leave vengeance to the Lord. But Cooper found peace with himself after he found a way to keep his promise and even the score with Boda.
language: English
title: 90 Day Wonder - Darkness Remembered
titlecomplete: 90 Day Wonder - Darkness Remembered
ratings_count: 3
publisher: AuthorHouse