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About the Ghosts of Honolulu
Hawaii, 1941. Clouds of war with Japan are gathering, and the Hawaiian Islands have become battlegrounds for spies, intelligence agents, and military officials, with the island's residents caught between them . In the shadows work Douglas Wada, the only American naval intelligence agent of Japanese origin, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy sent to Pearl Harbor to gather information on the American fleet.
Wada's experiences in his native Honolulu include posing as an undercover reporter, translating wiretaps at the Japanese consulate, and interrogating the first American prisoner captured during World War II, a submarine officer found on the beach. Yoshikawa is a Japanese spy working as a junior diplomat at the consulate and collecting vital information that goes directly to Admiral Yamamoto. Their dueling stories anchor Ghosts of Honolulu's gripping depiction of the world-changing games of cat and mouse played between Japanese and American military intelligence agents (and a Nazi mercenary) in Hawaii before the outbreak of war .
Also caught in the upheaval are the innocent residents of Honolulu, including Wada's father, who suffer the anti-Japanese fervor of the war, as well as a group of intelligence professionals who must prevent Hawaii from adopting the same internments massive destructive as California.
About the Author
Leon Carroll Jr. is the technical advisor to the hit series NCIS. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he attended Lindblom Technical High School and later earned a BS in Business Economics from North Dakota State University. He was a member of two collegiate division national championship teams in the late 1960s. Carroll was a commissioned officer in the United States Marine Corps, serving on active duty for six years and in the Marine Corps Reserves for three years, reaching the rank of major. Her assignments included service in Fleet Marine Forces and sea duty aboard USS Ogden (LPD-5). After his time in the Marines, Carroll began a 20-year career as a special agent with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS). He served in seven different locations, including tours as a special agent afloat on the USS Ranger (CV-61) and as special agent in charge of NCIS offices in the Republic of Panama and the Pacific Northwest. Upon his retirement from NCIS, Carroll was selected to be the technical advisor for the top-rated drama of the same name, serving in that role for 20 seasons. His experience in foreign counterintelligence gives him unique insight into the world in which undercover agents operate.
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