Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Written by Mark Harmon and Leon Carroll

Narrated by Mark Harmon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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"A fast-paced debut...Espionage buffs will savor this vibrant account." — Publishers Weekly 

A U.S. naval counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor; a Japanese spy ordered to Hawaii to gather information on the American fleet. On December 7, 1941, their hidden stories are exposed by a morning of bloodshed that would change the world forever. Scrutinizing long-buried historical documents, NCIS star Mark Harmon and co-author Leon Carroll, a former NCIS Special Agent, have brought forth a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger. 

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. 

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.

 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Harper Select
• Release date: Nov 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9781400337033

Mark Harmon

Mark Harmon starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs on NCIS for eighteen seasons and also served as executive producer of the show. In other television work, Mark received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series for the critically acclaimed The West Wing and for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Special for Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years. Other credits include Reasonable Doubts, for which he received two Golden Globe nominations; Chicago Hope; From Earth to the Moon; St. Elsewhere; and Moonlighting.

Reviews for Ghosts of Honolulu

[Leslie Wolf · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Excellent! Lots of history!It taught me a lot… Thank you

[Katie Brummell · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Ugh, I am so disappointed! I love WWII history and anything about Pearl Harbor. Although there were some interesting factoids, overall, this fell flat. I feel it gave a lot of information that wasn't relevant to make it more like a story. It was also written like it was being told firsthand, and then it would switch to being told about. It was odd. The most interesting stuff was about the Japanese spy who was spying on Pearl Harbor for Japan and how he ultimately got away with everything he did. There was a lot of talk about the forced internment of Japanese Americans and the irritation that the spy network and military had with that debacle. They believed that Japanese Americans were loyal and that the real threat wasn't citizens but undercover operatives. I really struggled to stay engaged with this book, and that makes me sad.

[Al Hughes · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As a retired NCIS Agent I found this book very informative and interesting.

[Daniel Couch · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

Awesome little known piece of WWII history and how it began for America.

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