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Atonement For Iwo

Synopsis

During World War II, Keith Masters, an infantry officer, engages four Japanese in a cave on Iwo Jima, killing three outright. The fourth, a sergeant, is mortally wounded, but is finished off by one of Masters' men.

Twenty years later, Masters, a bitter failure with work and family, suffers a heart attack, and develops the fixation that his misfortunes are due to being responsible for the murder of the Japanese sergeant. He goes to Japan to seek the family of the dead man, to help them overcome their loss and becomes involved with the sergeant's wife, Kimiko, a former prostitute, who has become one of the wealthiest women in the country. Her beautiful, modern minded daughter, Hiroko, offers herself to keep Masters away from her mother. Worst of all, Kimiko's son, Ichiro, is awaiting execution for the assassination of a politician.

Now Masters has an opportunity to atone for his sin

Author Biography

Lester Taube

Lester Taube was born of Russian and Lithuanian immagrants in Trenton, New Jersey. He began soldiering while in his teens, first the horse artillery, then as an infantryman for the remainder of his career. In World War II, he was a platoon leader in the Bismark Archipelago, attached to the Marines on Iwo Jima, then on Okinawa, the last battle of the war. Recuperating from wounds and malaria, he left the army to run a 400 employee electronic company in California, a 450 employee paper stock company in Pennsylvania and then moved to Canada to open a logging and pulp-wood cutting operation. Returning to military service, he served as an advisor to the Turkish army, as an intelligence officer and company commander in Korea, then left to become an insurance consultant.

During the Vietnam period, he was stationed in Europe as a general staff officer working in intelligence and war plans. While there, he opened a chain of coin-operated laundries in France that would become the largest in Europe. Prior to retirement as a full colonel, he moved to a small villiage in Austria and kept a boat for several years in the Cote d' Azur.

Returning to the U.S. after 13 years overseas, he worked as an economic development specialist for the State of New Jersey until his final retirement. He has four children all born in different countries.

Since retirement, he has spent winters in Florida, summers in New Jersey, fished, boated and traveled to Europe each year, especially to Spain to keep up with his great interest in bull fighting.

He began writing action novels while in France, and after producing four books which were published in a number of different countries, and selling two for motion pictures, he stopped--"as there were children to raise and soldiering to do."