Dead Reckoning is the epic true story of the high-stakes operation undertaken sixteen months later to avenge aerial assault on U.S. bases on Hawaii on December 7, 1941. Expertly crafting this "hunt for Bin Laden"-style WWII story, New York Times bestselling author Dick Lehr recreates the tension-filled events leading up to the climactic clash in the South Pacific skies—frontline moments loaded with xenophobia, spycraft, sacrifice and broken hearts. Lehr focuses on Army Air Force Major John W. Mitchell, the ace fighter pilot tasked with conceiving a flight route for the only U.S. fighter plane on Guadalcanal capable of reaching Yamamoto hundreds of miles away. Lehr reveals for the first time the full story of Mitchell’s wartime exploits up to the face-off with Yamamoto, the enigmatic, charismatic commander in chief of Japan’s Combined Fleet, whose complicated feelings about the U.S.—he studied at Harvard—add rich complexity.