Bad Company, Daniel P. Coughlin, Drama, TWB Press

Most people know of the Douglas MacArthur legend, “I shall return” when he withdrew from the Philippines. And many know about “The Battling Bastards of Bataan,” the Death March, and the brutality of the Japanese invaders. Far fewer know the trials and tribulations of the heroic Cebu resistance fighters led by mining engineer Lt. Col. James Cushing. A Bastard Resistance draws on little-known historical events as seen through the eyes of Patrick “Pat” Morkan, a NYC lawyer turned fighter pilot, as he tells the story of Cushing and the men and women, especially G-2 Lt. Carmen Duran, inside a guerrilla network on the Japanese-occupied island of Cebu, where courage, love, faith, and betrayal collide with wartime ferocity. Worse, an Executive Order Morkan finds on a dead pilot reveals corruption at the top echelons of power, a wartime bargain held in confidence until MacArthur’s 1952 bid for the Presidency