The White Ghost, James R. Benn
The White Ghost, James R. Benn
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The White Ghost

Author: James R. Benn

Narrator: Peter Berkrot

Unabridged: 11 hr 13 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 09/01/2015

Synopsis

In 1943, in the midst of the brutal, hard-fought Solomon Islands campaign between the Allies and the Japanese forces, Lieutenant Billy Boyle receives an odd assignment. He’s sent by the powerful Kennedy family to investigate a murder in which PT skipper (and future president) Jack Kennedy has been implicated. The victim is a native coastwatcher, an allied intelligence operative whom Kennedy discovered on the island of Tulagi with his head bashed in. That’s Kennedy’s story, anyhow. Kennedy was recovering in the Navy hospital on the island after the sinking of his PT-109 motor torpedo boat. The military hasn’t decided yet whether to make him a hero for surviving the attack, or have him court-martialed for losing the boat, and the last thing the Kennedy clan wants is a murder charge hanging over his head. Billy must sort through a tangled, shifting web of motives and identities, even as combat rages all around him.

About James R. Benn

James R. Benn is the author of the Billy Boyle World War II Mystery series, which includes the novels Billy Boyle, The First Wave, Blood Alone, Evil for Evil, Rag and Bone, and A Mortal Terror. A librarian for many years, he now writes full time and lives in Hadlyme, Connecticut.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ronald on June 03, 2015

To Be Published by Soho Crime in September 2015 When one reads a Billy Boyle novel by James Benn it is understandable to think you are reading history. This series is so well researched that one is allowed to mistake plots for real events. Benn has given us a Chinese box of a mystery: first, it seems......more

Goodreads review by Bebe (Sarah) on December 21, 2015

Billy Boyle is back! This is one of the very best WWII series, taking a young Boston cop into a bewildering world of detective work within the setting of wartime Europe. The brutality and mechanism of war and those effects on Billy, and the men and women in the action, are eloquently explored in thi......more

Goodreads review by Jay on May 31, 2023

Author James R. Benn's THE WHITE GHOST, the 10th in his Billy Boyle World War II mystery series jumps a bit back in time from the previous book THE REST IN SILENCE. Early in that latter book, there is a mention of a recently finished investigation on the Solomon Islands. And that is the subject of T......more

Goodreads review by Libby on November 06, 2020

I missed this book when it first came out, so was happy for the chance to finally read it. I enjoyed Billy's short foray into the the Pacific theater of the war. As always, I appreciated Benn's attention to historical details and the cameo appearances of real people. A classic Billy Boyle mystery, v......more

Goodreads review by May on June 28, 2020

I really enjoyed this, the 10th, of the series! I love Billy Boyle’s references to Boston especially because I live just north of the city. Young Joe Kennedy is accused of murder in the Solomon Islands during 1943. Thus Billy & Kaz are in the Pacific Theater. I grew up with stories of JFK’s exploits......more

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