SO ON FACEBOOK, JOHN RINGO IS RECOMMENDING THIS BOOK. Do you really need to know more? Okay: “If I had Comet Parker advanced enough in rank I’d probably use it as the basis for a Troy book. She’d make a fine stand-in for Ernest W. Evans. You really can’t top this true story for sheer bloody courage to the point of insanity. Three US destroyers and a destroyer escort taking on four Japanese battleships, six cruisers and seventeen destroyers to try and allow some jeep carriers to escape destruction.”