''Look Who I Won In a Poker Game!''

About the Book

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This novel is based on a rumor. The author was among the very first combat officers to arrive on the island of Kyushu, one of the islands of Japan, immediately following the signing of the peace aboard the USS Missouri on 9/3/45. The Japanese civilians had been propagandized for years what monsters Americans were. This story went around the Air Base about a very innocent pilot – too young to get a driver’s license back home – in a poker game had won a Geisha House. If, indeed, he were to fall in love with one of the adorable, feminine young ladies, trained to tend to a man’s every wish, what effect that would have on him – which, in turn, would have influence on her. Also, what would the officers in that command do about all this – an American officer owning a geisha house? Add to that, the Stateside Commanders, officers who spent the whole war in the Training Command back home, who were sent overseas to relieve men with ‘combat points,’ who were ready to get back home. Also, add to relaxed, free-wheeling combat troops, these ‘spit & polish’ commanders who wanted to run their new commands ‘by the book.’ This story is all about mixing those two sets of complete opposites and this is one result.

About the Author

Mark Druck is a playwright produced Off-Off-Broadway, author of four novels, film scriptwriter, director for stage and camera Established MARK DRUCK PRODUCTIONS, 1969, producing Industrial films/videos & TV commercials. Listed in ‘Who’s Who In Entertainment,’ ‘Who’s Who In America,’ & ‘Who’s Who In The World.’ Flew with 38th Bomb Group, in B25s, coming in on missions at altitudes as low as 20 feet over targets at 350 mph. He served in the Air Force Reserve through Korea and Viet Nam, retiring as a Major. One of the first officers to land on Kyushu following the surrender to find Japanese civilians terrified, for they had been propagandized for years that US troops were monsters. He was arguably one of the first Americans to visit the original Geisha Houses in Fukuoka. The characters in this story are based on his experiences, & upon a story he heard at that time, which was probably not true, but fascinated by the revealing relationships between the two peoples in those earliest days of American soldiers in Japan.