Wounded Tiger

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THE INSPIRING TRUE STORY OF THE JAPANESE PILOT WHO LED THE SURPRISE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR, AN AMERICAN PRISONER, AND A GIRL HE NEVER MET.

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“YOU DESCRIBED MY FATHER’S POSTURE AND BEHAVIOR SO WELL AND SO PRECISELY; I COULD FEEL HIS PRESENCE.” MIYAKO FUCHIDA OVERTURF Daughter of Mitsuo Fuchida

“WOUNDED TIGER IS EPIC, COMPELLING, AND INSPIRATIONAL. IT WILL IMPACT YOU LONG AFTER YOU’VE READ IT.” multi-million Bestseller "The Shack."WAYNE JACOBSEN Author, Pastor, and Collaborator
on the multi-million Bestseller The Shack

“THE STORY OF MITSUO FUCHIDA, THE PILOT WHO LED THE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK, AND HIS TRANSFORMATION, IS ONE OF THE MOST GRIPPING STORIES OF WWII!” DR. DONALD GOLDSTEIN NYT best-selling author of At Dawn We Slept and others.

“BRAVO TO AN EXTRAORDINARY STORY!!! I CAN FEEL YOUR PASSION IN BRINGING THIS STORY TO LIFE—A MOVING INTERNATIONAL EPIC WITH RESPECT AND GRATITUDE!!!” YÔKO NARAHASHI Associate Producer and Head of Japanese Casting for The Last Samurai and many other films.

“IT’S CRAZY. IT'S JUST UNBELIEVABLE AND PEOPLE NEED TO HEAR IT. WE CAN STILL TOUCH THIS HISTORY.” ERIC METAXAS Author of four NYT #1 Bestsellers including BONHOFFER: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy.

“I FOUND MYSELF RIGHT 'THERE.' PEOPLE CAN AND DO CHANGE. IT'S OFTEN A MYSTERY AS TO HOW OR WHY. BY THE TIME I READ THE LAST LINE, MY LIFE IN WAYS CHANGED ALSO.” DEBORAH TOKARZ HBO Producer / Writer

“HAVING SHARED A SPEAKING PLATFORM IN THE EARLY 1970’S WITH MITSUO FUCHIDA, I FOUND IT COMPELLING, ENGROSSING, AND MESMERIZING. YOU CAN’T READ THIS STORY WITHOUT BEING AFFECTED IN SOME DEEP AND PERSONAL WAY.” JOSH MCDOWELL Speaker and author of Evidence that Demands a Verdict and many others.

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ABOUT THE STORY

Wounded Tiger is the amazing true story of three incredibly different people from different places and cultures whose paths cross in ways both remarkable and nearly unbelievable.

 

Mitsuo Fuchid

Handpicked by Admiral Yamamoto to lead the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, MITSUO FUCHIDA'S ambition for the glory of Japan ultimately drove him and his nation into utter ruin.

Jake DeShazer, a young man serving in the US Army Air Corps., swore revenge against the Japanese and volunteered for the first American counterattack on Japan – but things went impossibly wrong.

Jake DeShazer
Peggy Covell

Peggy Covell's parents served as teachers in Japan, until her family fled the impending war to the safety of the Philippines, never realizing the disaster awaiting them. But what happened through her life would leave Fuchida forever changed.

UNIQUE FEATURES OF WOUNDED TIGER

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    Although a true story, Wounded Tiger reads like a novel because it is a novel. Initially written as an epic screenplay, Bennett painstakingly novelized it into book form with the authentic details found in nonfiction while maintaining the dynamic “now” feel and format of a dramatic character novel.
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    Over 300 images of all kinds that put the reader right into the middle of the story from start to finish.
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    Wounded Tiger is built around three main plotlines and stories that are completely separate to begin with, but slowly come together in an unpredictable and captivating way.
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    The book includes historically accurate perspectives of the Pacific War from both the Japanese and American sides that gives the reader a glimpse not only into what was happening, but why.
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    And Wounded Tiger takes you through a host of social issues and ideological conflicts through the characters' experience that led to the war and follows them through to resolution afterwards.
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    Many propose theories of how to build a better world. This story is a demonstration of how it happens, one person at a time.
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WOUNDED TIGER THE FEATURE FILM

Wounded Tiger is being developed as a major motion picture and is in the hands of a number of Oscar-winning producers. This "sizzle reel" or test movie trailer was made from other film footage to give you an idea of how it might feel on the big screen. Check back to this website for developments.

Martin Bennett

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

In 2005, T. MARTIN BENNETT stumbled across rare information about Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese pilot who led the attack on Pearl Harbor and who is still largely unknown to Americans. The Tennessee-based author, screenwriter, and entrepreneur, says, “I’d never heard a single word about Fuchida, other than that he was a villain.”

But as he started researching Fuchida's life, Bennett knew he had to tell this incredible story. He said, “If it weren’t true, it would be hard to believe, but it is true.”

The result is Wounded Tiger, Bennett’s vivid, cinematic novel, now published in this new edition. The transformation of these characters, and especially the resolution of their conflicts, inside and out, has resonated with readers across the board, evoking comments such as, “Wounded Tiger is by far the most riveting and inspirational book I have ever read," and "No other book about WWII so clearly contrasts the differences between enemies and so powerfully shows how we are all the same.”

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