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Highlights
- So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore.
- Author(s): Bina C Kiyonaga
- 336 Pages
- True Crime, Espionage
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Book Synopsis
So begins the love story of Joe Kiyonaga, the striking Japanese-American war hero from Hawaii, and Bina Cady, the irreverent Irish-Catholic redhead from Baltimore. Similar in their convictions, different in most every other respect, the two leaped into a marriage in 1947 that defied the anti-Japanese sentiments of the day. And their unlikely union would come to include a powerful, top-secret cohort: the CIA. For while Bina, Joe, and their children played the part of a normal family, all of their activities were geared toward Joe's clandestine mission as a spy for the CIA: to gather intelligence information and recruit new agents . Full of intrigue, passion, and danger, this extraordinary memoir has all the elements of the finest fiction -- made more compelling because every word is true.
Review Quotes
"I love this story! It has everything-youth, adventure, romance and intrigue-propelled page after page by a joyous, unmistakably American spirit. Bina Kiyonaga has taken her technicolor life and given us a fabulous book."--Chris Matthews, host of NBC's "Extraordinary and profound...Emotionally and patriotically satisfying...a story that demonstrates that racial differences need not serve as obstacles to a happy union. My spy is a story of America."--Daniel K. Inouye, United States Senator