Excerpt from B.R.A.G. comments:
“Adapting historically accurate material to the skills of the fiction writer brings history to life and enables exploration of the motives and consequences of documented events. For this reader, this is the very best use of historical fiction, often achieving a truth that academic histories cannot reach. Islands of Deception is a model of this type of historical fiction. And what a family story Constance Hood has to tell. Following her father, Hans, from a life of family wealth and prestige, to a near-penniless immigrant intent upon assimilating in New York, to a spy for the U.S. Army in the Pacific during World War II. Despite disappointments at every seeming opportunity, Hans, with his inherited ingenuity, makes a modest success. In each new situation he seems to stumble upon the very action that will bring the next challenge and the next small success until they add up to exceptional honor in service of his adopted country, but an honor that he has sworn not to reveal for fifty years.”