NCIS actor Mark Harmon is teaming up with the technical adviser on the series to write a book about spies during World War II, People magazine reports.
Harper Select will publish Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, written by Harmon and Leon Carroll Jr., this fall. An Amazon page for the book describes it as “a true-life NCIS story of deception, discovery, and danger.”
The book tells the true story of Douglas Wada, a Japanese American naval intelligence officer, and Takeo Yoshikawa, a Japanese spy.
Harmon acted in series including St. Elsewhere and Chicago Hope before NCIS debuted in 2003. A spinoff of the show JAG, the series follows agents of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. It is currently one of the longest-running television series still on the air.
Carroll is the show’s technical advisor. He is a Marine Corps veteran who worked as an NCIS special agent for 20 years.
Harmon told People, “On the show we used to use the fact that no one knew who this agency was or what they did as a point of humor, but for those doing this difficult job for real, there was nothing funny about it. To provide these men and women a chance to tell their story, their REAL story, has been both fun and educational for me.”
Ghosts of Honolulu is slated for publication on Nov. 14.
Michael Schaub, a journalist and regular contributor to NPR, lives near Austin, Texas.
