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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.

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""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

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

Author Information

Bina Cady Kiyonaga has studied for her master's degree in philosophy and theology. She is the mother of five and grandmother of ten. She lives in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

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