One would have expected this novel - about a Japanese-American teenager who becomes a superspy and battles against Japan's atomic program during World War II - to be a light and young-adult-aimed adventure story. Instead, Coral Hare is a very different sort of tale, and very definitely not for teens.The novel is actually rather hard to classify, as its tone keeps shifting throughout. Sometimes, it's like an 80s action film, with obvious heroes and villains, disposable minions, and scenes of gory...

Looking for a bit of 007-style historical fiction set in WWII with a young woman as the hero? Then you may want to consider this story, but I cannot recommend it unequivocally. On the good side, the action here is pretty awesome. It sometimes gets a little easy on the main character, but like with Bond stories and other spy-action stuff, you probably won't care. If you're along for the ride, you're already on board with a girl on roller skates snapping every neck and avoiding allll the gunfire. ...

Disclaimer: I received this book for free for review purposesLet me just say this up front: I believe Clive Lee deserves high praise for his writing in Coral Hare for maintaining a balance of spy thriller tropes and historic realism. So, yeah, Mina (our main character) is going to somewhat improbably meet up with certain nemesis at nearly every turn and somewhat more improbably continue to fight after having endured grave bodily harm. At the same time, the novel maintains its historicity; Mina i...

This is a genuine page-turner. Good WWII research, well-written, kick-ass young woman protagonist - Japanese American from Hawai`i! She is recruited by OSS [precursor to CIA] and rockets from incident to incident in mission to destroy Japan's little-known atomic bomb project. Good show!

James Bond and Jason Bourne need to step aside. A new spy is on the loose, and she isn’t holding anything back. Clive Lee’s novel, Coral Hare, follows the dangerous missions of WWII, Japanese-American spy, Mina Sakamoto. Mina and her father were there on the fateful day the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Mina barely survived the encounter, but her father was not so lucky. Determined to makes his death mean something, Mina devotes herself to the war effort in order to put a stop to the atrocities ...

Most people who've read very much at all about World War II are aware that Germany, as well as the U.S., had an active atom bomb development program. Not many, however, are aware (I wasn't, before encountering this book!) that Japan did too --and indeed, that information was only declassified relatively recently. First novelist Lee draws on this new historical information to create a riveting espionage thriller --and the adjective "high-octane" in the description, for once, isn't just hype!After...

The author draws you in from the beginning. I found it hard to put down. An ultimate spy novel.Coral Hare is a very action packed novel, based on fact, taking you into the WWII Japanese Nuclear program. Follow the young Mina Sakamoto from Hawaii to Japan and Korea in this adventure as she is recruited into the OSS sending her into Japan and Korea chasing the bomb. Everywhere she goes she runs into Col. Tetsou Matsui or "Rain", the man in charge of it all. Her rival and archenemy.This book is bas...

Enthralling World War 2 spy thriller. It's a female James Bond; reminds me of Nikita mixed with a little Kill Bill. Two thumbs up!

Two thumbs up! ^_^ (Hey, it's my own book, what can I say?)

Excellent WW II spy thriller. I've been looking for a good read on this topic, and it's really a treat to find one about the Japanese takeover and the history behind it. It's intriguing from start to finish and the like the part on the Pacific Front. Definitely worth a look.