Val Getty

Verner Getty is a character in the Eden Pond Series.

Biography

Verner Getty is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on the Oregon Coast in 1941-42.

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 with no prospects of rising higher in the ranks, 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