Ghosts of Honolulu, Mark Harmon

A piece of advice to Harmon – stick to your day job as an actor. So poorly written I could barely finish it. Thankfully, it’s only 250 pages, with plenty of empty space within the chapters, so it’s only a few hours to read. It’s obvious Harmon and his co-writer, Leon Carroll Jr., have spent way too many years in episodic TV building that type of sixth-grade reading level qualities. Such a shame, because the topic is interesting – the true story of the leading Japanese spy in Hawaii, the American naval intelligence special agent searching for truth, and the ordinary people caught in the crosshairs of a world coming to war. It dives into the public sentiment against the Japanese in America as the war became evident; interpretations from both sides on how they viewed the war and how those who were fighting it; the obvious signs Japan was going to do something drastic before Pearl Harbor occurred on 7Dec41, but the warnings draw no concerns. Unfortunately, every book can’t be a great read… and this one is definitely in that category.