{"title":"Island Builders Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey build the airfields the war depends on, under fire and against the tide. Seabee crews with bulldozers, crushers and coral race to carve fighter strips and fuel farms out of Pacific islands while the enemy bombs what they finish.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"coral-strip-island-builders-book-1","title":"Coral Strip (Island Builders Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey came to build a fighter strip on a flat white shelf. The sea comes up over it on every tide.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChief Carpenter's Mate Doran lands his Seabee crew at Kuru Beach on Tolonga with a D-8 bulldozer, one crusher and one heavy roller. The first raid burns the fuel drums on the beach before the day is out. The second discovery is worse: the Sasavo shelf, the one flat place on the island, lies below the high-water line.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVickery, the surveyor, finds the only coral that will take an airplane, a heavy gray-blue stone in the face of a single pit. Everything else crushes to flour and turns to paste in the rain. With every machine the only one of its kind, Doran has to build a runway out of what the island will actually give him.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288124809282,"sku":"IB-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Coral_Strip_cover_8394ca31-2232-4e96-b690-06cbb207ef5b.jpg?v=1790727017"},{"product_id":"pier-under-fire-island-builders-book-2","title":"Pier Under Fire (Island Builders Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe tanks weigh thirty-three tons. The lighters are rated for thirty. There is no pier.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe strip on Tolonga is finished and the fighters are under the trees, which makes the island worth taking. Captain Ruddock, who holds the perimeter, has a section of medium tanks on the water, and the craft bringing them will have nowhere to put her ramp: the reef flat is live coral with the wreck of the old pontoon causeway across it. Chief Doran is told to build a berth before she sails in.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe has three cells of salvaged pontoon, fire-damaged timber, most of the welding gas already spent, and a shovel that can carry pile-driving leads if the lieutenant will let it run again. The raiders now come in low off the water. 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With Phelps's pumps, Vickery's level and very little else, Doran's crew has to keep a surgery working on ground that has stopped holding anything up.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45288124907586,"sku":"IB-03-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/03_Storm_Camp_cover_4d8a3858-4955-4b28-b0b7-a6aa716247bf.jpg?v=1790727017"},{"product_id":"fuel-farm-island-builders-book-4","title":"Fuel Farm (Island Builders Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stack of fuel drums shines in the low sun, and somebody has been looking for it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaiders come in off the water at Tinao and put a stick into the only fuel stack on Tolonga. Chief Doran's crew saves most of it, and Doran orders every drum rolled into the scrub and dug in singly so the beach never shows a target again. 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