Val Getty

Verner Getty is a character in the Eden Pond Series.

Biography

Verner Getty is a master sergeant in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps, assigned to the Oregon Coast at the start of World War II. He joined the U.S. Army on his eighteenth birthday in 1918, but never made it to France. He survived the post-war drawdown and made a career of military service. At the start of World War II, he had nearly twenty-four years of service.

Getty is tall with a narrow face, with sage eyes and brown hair. There’s a peppering of premature grey at his temples.

Getty is running a criminal operation whereby he steals supplies belonging to the army and sells them through the black market. He then uses the proceeds to buy agricultural land from Japanese farmers at rock bottom prices. He's taking advantage of anti-Japanese sentiment and gambling that internment will happen. "A man in my position, more than twenty years in at terminal rank, needs to think about his future. I was a farmer as a boy. I can do it again."

Appearances

• Tillamook Guerillas (working title), Eden Pond Book 1