Twilight of Empire

The empire is falling. The fight for Alaska has begun.The reign of Nippon is finished. After more than two decades of Japanese occupation, Alaska rises in revolt - and a single hidden PT boat becomes the spark that ignites a continent-wide reckoning.Late August 1967. In a rain-slicked cove at Tee Harbor, the crew of PT-245 fires the first shots of a new war, sinking a Japanese patrol vessel that has drifted too close to their camouflaged berth. Word has come down through the Underground Liberation: Tokyo and Berlin have been vaporized by atomic bombs. The Emperor is dead. The Third Reich is reeling. And across occupied Alaska Prefecture, resistance cells that have waited a generation are finally free to fight.But the Empire will not die quietly. In Juneau, the Tokkeitai are rounding up suspected traitors. A Vice Admiral takes his own life rather than face dishonor. A Kempeitai major flees south through storm-tossed seas, offered an impossible choice between loyalty and survival. In Angoon, the Tlingit Provisional Navy prepares for open warfare. And in San Francisco, a crown prince ascends the Chrysanthemum Throne of a shattered empire, determined to hold what remains of Japan’s Pacific dominion.From hidden torpedo boats in fog-shrouded fjords to secret printing presses passing banned books, from smuggler-captains with hidden loyalties to librarians who dig up buried rifles, Stoney Compton weaves an unforgettable tapestry of occupation, resistance, and revolution in an America that lost the Pacific War.Rich in period detail, packed with authentic military hardware, and populated by characters whose choices carry the weight of empire, Twilight of Empire is alternate history at its most ambitious. Fans of Harry Turtledove, Robert Conroy, and Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle will find themselves swept into a world that feels terrifyingly real.