Mark Harmon Writes Book Based On How Real NCIS Agency Came To Be; Will Debut In November
03.07.2023 - 01:09
/ justjared.com
Mark Harmon might have departed NCIS on camera, but he is still inspired by the agency every day.
So much in fact that he wrote a book about how the agency came to be!
Mark teamed up with Leon Carroll, Jr., who was a real NCIS agent, and together they wrote a nonfiction book about how the agency was formed.
Keep reading to find out more…
According to publisher Harper Select, the book, titled “Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor” will be released in November, and focuses on a case that was handled by the ONI, Office of Naval Intelligence.
Here’s the summary from the publisher: “Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, co-authors Harmon and Carroll Jr. have brought forth a true-life NCIS operation that depicts the incredible high-stakes game of naval intelligence encompassing cultural complexities, life-threatening dangers, and unrelenting patriotism in this riveting historical narrative about the defining moment of a generation.”
“The book tells the story of 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 US fleet. In his native Honolulu, Wada’s poses undercover as a newspaper reporter, translates wiretaps on the Japanese Consulate, and interrogates America’s first captured POW of World War II. In contrast, Yoshikawa works with the consulate as a junior diplomat and collects vital information, sending it 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