Eyes of the Emperor

Eddy Okubo lies about his age and joins the United States Army in Honolulu in 1941. Soon after he enlists, the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, and suddenly his fellow Americans see him as the enemy. Even the army doubts his loyalty—and the loyalty of all American soldiers of Japanese ancestry.

Then the army sends Eddy and twenty-four other Japanese American soldiers to a remote island on a secret mission. They are given a terrifying job and told that only they can do it. On the island, the meanings of duty, patriotism, loyalty, and courage are tested in a bizarre world where Eddy is tried in unbelievable ways.

In this riveting account of a little-known chapter of American history, Graham Salisbury returns to the story of Hawaii at war that he began in the award-winning Under the Blood-Red Sun.