Publisher: Fish Tales, LLC
Date of Publication: June 16, 2018
In 1943, Lane Mercer and Emmie Tesco had nothing in common. Well, nothing stronger than a town neither of them chose and careers they couldn’t advertise as agents within the Office of Strategic Services. During the days of Longview, Texas’s Friendly Trek Homecoming Parade, Lane was gearing up for the grand opening of a bookshop that also disguised an espionage safe house, and Emmie was chasing a criminal with evil intent through the US Army’s new medical facility, Harmon General Hospital, treating diseased and amputated soldiers. Emmie ropes Lane into international threats at Harmon General, making it increasingly hard for the two spies to navigate the Junior Service League, church life, or anything else that might be considered normal for a town sizzling with oil boom wealth. A friend from Lane’s past arrives and pushes against the fiction she’s created to distance her spy history from the wedding bells ringing her future. Emmie flirts with the idea of finding a life outside of the OSS but justifies the danger as a way to make amends for those she’s betrayed. Connecting the two women, to their surprise, is a rogue agent who targets them for crimes he believes they created. For better, or worse, they have to put aside their differences to share responsibility for stopping “The Grasshopper” before he blows apart the Big Inch Pipeline project and Harmon General Hospital. The hope of malaria treatments for US soldiers depends on it, and justice of the heart demands it.
“Harmon General is a brilliant story for historical fiction readers! Set in World War II, the female spies, Army hospital setting, and drama amongst the Longview townsfolk kept me riveted and engaged until the very end.” – Jody T. Morse
Longview, Texas in the 1940s
Guest Post by Kimberly Fish
Because few elements of architecture remain from the oil boom heyday of the 1930s and 40s, I was asked to provide a map showing where some of the real and fictional venues mentioned in the series are located. Below are the maps that show a few of the key locations.
Also, of special note, significant interest is being stirred up about Longview’s WWII contributions thanks to the success of The Big Inch novel and a regional anniversary event has been planned for Saturday, Oct 6th to honor the anniversary of The Big Inch Pipeline and its war-winning contributions to the troops serving in Europe. Hosted by the Gregg County Historical Museum at the East Texas Oil Museum in Kilgore, Texas the special anniversary program will host panel discussions and exhibits related to the nation’s first federal pipeline project shipping Texas crude and gasoline products to the east coast for escort across the Atlantic.
Article about the East Texas Oil Museum: http://texaslesstraveled.com/oilmuseum.htm
Gregg County Historical Museum:
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Kimberly Fish started writing professionally with the birth of her second child and the purchase of a home computer. Having found this dubious outlet, she then entered and won The Writer’s League of Texas manuscript contest which fed her on-going fascination with story crafting.
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