After the success of their first book,
Ghosts of Honolulu, the
NCIS team reunite to tell the gripping story of Naval Investigative
Service agents working the most dangerous beat in the world – the
narco-state of Panama in the late
1980s.
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 12,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Harper Select will publish the
next installment from Mark Harmon
and Leon Carroll, Jr., Ghosts of Panama: A Strongman Out of Control, A Murdered
Marine, and the Special Agents Caught in the Middle of an
Invasion, on November 19,
2024.
Panama, 1989. The once warm
relationship between United States
and Gen. Manuel Noriega has eroded
dangerously. Newly elected President George
H.W. Bush has declared the strongman a drug trafficker and a
rigger of elections. Intimidation on the streets is a daily reality
for U.S. personnel and their families. The nation is a powder
keg.
Naval Investigative Service (NIS) Special Agent
Rick Yell has worked the job in
Panama since 1986, and lives there
with his wife Annya and infant child. Like most NIS agents, he's a
civilian with no military rank with a specialty in working criminal
cases. The dynamic changes suddenly when Yell inadvertently
develops an intelligence source with unparalleled access to the
Noriega regime. Now the agent is thrust into a world of
spy-versus-spy, of secret meetings and hidden documents.
Yell's source – known as "The Old Man" – warns when Cuban
military personnel arrive and identifies anti-American officers
within the Panamanian Defense Forces, and helps track Noriega's
movements, agitating for the dictator's kidnapping. The
reports created by Yell and his NIS colleagues shape the decisions
made in Washington D.C., CIA
headquarters in Langley and the innermost sanctums of Pentagon.
The powder keg is lit on December 16,
1989, when a young U.S. Marine is gunned down at a
checkpoint in Panama City. Yell and his cadre of trusted agents
deploy immediately to investigate the killing, and what they
determine will decide the fate of two nations. When President Bush
hears the details they uncover, he orders an invasion that puts
Yell's family, informants and fellow agents directly in harm's
way.
Using a blend of research and interviews with the NIS agents who
were directly involved, Ghosts of Panama reveals the untold, clandestine
story of counterintelligence professionals placed in a pressure
cooker assignment of historic proportions.
Ghosts of Panama will be available
November 19, 2024, in hardcover,
ebook, and audiobook. You can pre-order today at:
https://www.harpercollinsfocus.com/harper-horizon/ghosts-panama/.
Harmon and Carroll's first book together, Ghosts of
Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, A
Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor, follows a U.S. naval
counterintelligence officer working to safeguard Pearl Harbor and 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 will change the world forever. After a successful
release, spending multiple weeks on The New York Times' Best Seller
List, Ghosts of Honolulu is now available in paperback.
The book was chosen as a Barnes & Noble
Book Pick for September 2024.
There will be an in-person author event at the Barnes & Noble
at The Grove in Los Angeles, CA on
September 14. See more details
here:
https://stores.barnesandnoble.com/event/9780062171736-0.
ABOUT MARK
HARMON:
MARK HARMON
starred as Leroy Jethro Gibbs
on NCIS and also served as executive producer of
the show. On the new CBS series, NCIS:
Origins which explores the early career of Gibbs, Harmon
will serve as narrator in addition to executive producer. In other
television work, Hamon 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.
ABOUT LEON CARROLL,
JR.:
LEON CARROLL, Jr. co-authored
the New York
Times bestseller Ghosts of Honolulu. He previously served as
technical advisor on the hit drama NCIS for
twenty-one seasons and is currently working on the new
show NCIS: Origins. Previously, he was a commissioned
officer in the United States
Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Major. Leon then
began a twenty-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 the Special Agent in Charge of NCIS offices
in the Republic of Panama and the
Pacific Northwest.
ABOUT HARPER SELECT:
Harper Select, based in
Nashville, TN, publishes an
exclusive number of hand-selected memoirs and narrative
nonfiction each year. Recent NYT Bestsellers include books
from Joanna Gaines, Mark Harmon, Leon
Carroll, Jr., and Loyola Chicago's Sister Jean.
Contacts:
Kevin Smith, Senior Publicity
Director
kevin.smith@harpercollins.com
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