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Hawaii, 1941. War clouds with Japan are gathering and the islands
of Hawaii have become battlegrounds of spies, intelligence agents,
and military officials - with the island's residents caught between
them. Toiling in the shadows are Douglas Wada, the only Japanese
American agent in naval intelligence, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a
Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the U.S.
fleet. Douglas Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include
posing undercover as a newspaper reporter, translating wiretaps on
the Japanese Consulate, and interrogating America's first captured
POW of World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Takeo
Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy operating as a junior diplomat with the
consulate who is collecting vital information that goes straight to
Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's
gripping depiction of the world-changing cat and mouse games played
between Japanese and US military intelligence agents (and a
mercenary Nazi) in Hawaii before the outbreak of the second world
war. Also caught in the upheaval are Honolulu's innocent residents
- including Douglas Wada's father - who endure the war's
anti-Japanese fervor and a cadre of intelligence professionals who
must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same destructive mass
internments as California. Scrutinizing long-buried historical
documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a
former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS
story of deception, discovery, and danger. Ghosts of Honolulu
depicts the incredible high stakes game of naval intelligence and
the need to define what is real and what only appears to be real.
A flaming liberal in real life, Leon has been called 'a cross
between Michael Moore and South Park'. He shares with readers his
hilarious misadventures as he dons the persona of a 'pissed-off
convenience store clerk' at the Knob Creek Biannual Machine Gun
Shoot in Bullit County, Kentucky. Next, he's working security in
southern California at an 'Arnold for Governor' rally, where he has
several memorable encounters with the Terminator himself - and
finds himself constantly promoted! But this is only the beginning.
Leon reports on his zany experience at a Christian wrestling
extravaganza, where the scantily clad wrestlers toss opponents into
the stands in the name of Jesus. Taking a different tack, he paints
on temporary tattoos, wears a black T-shirt reading 'Kill 'em all.
Let God sort 'em out!' and then entertainingly describes the
reactions he gets when he tries to purchase a condominium in an
exclusive gated community.
Called 'a cross between Michael Moore and South Park', gonzo
journalist Harmon Leon shares his undercover exploits among fringe
right-wingers in this riotously funny book where he exposes the
harrowing and hilarious reality of living in red-state America.
Follow Harmon in this twisted sampler of 'infiltration journalism'
on each of his missions impossible as he dons various ingenious
disguises, goes undercover, tries various ways to eke out a living,
and then just barely escapes to report on the shocking and very
funny truth about surviving in conservative America.
For some, the American Dream is a pre-fab house in the suburbs with
2.5 kids and a two-week vacation at the end of the year. To others,
it is working a push fruit cart in Oakland in order to put food on
the family's table in Oaxaca. In The American Dream Harmon Leon
draws upon his experiences of adopting personas and disguises to
infiltrate the various institutions of everyday life, living among
a diverse range of subcultures and learning first hand how they see
their vision and utopia. His incursions include working as a
marijuana farmer in a hippie commune in Northern California
becoming a carnie in rural Indiana visiting a tourist attraction in
Mexico (that allows people to simulate illegally crossing the
border) venturing to Hollywood while trying to climb the ranks in
the star-making machine and working in the strawberries fields of
California with newly arrived immigrants. The American Dream is a
funny, satirical, and ultimately poignant take on what it means to
be an American today.
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