Live in Infamy by Caroline Tung Richmond

Post date: Mar 28, 2019

In this book the Allies did not win World War II. The Axis powers did. After the war the United States was split in half. The Japanese control what was the western United States and the Nazis control the eastern United States. The story starts eighty years after World War II ended. Imperial Japan controls the Western American Territories with an iron fist. People who speak out are either sent to jail, re-education centers (former internment camps), or executed. Ren Cabot and his father have lived in fear since Ren's mother was executed for treason. Ren's father tells him to keep his head down and do not draw attention to himself, but Ren cannot do that. He uses the power of the written word to stoke the fire of the resistance. He becomes "the Viper." He is also drawn into a resistance plot to kidnap the Japanese princess after he finds out his mother might still be alive. Can he save his mother in time?