KASTNER: Not all such sorties are disappointments, sir. I admit the net result was a disappointment. KASTNER: There was a possibility that it might have been, sir.

NEILSEN: DO you now believe that what you achieved was worth the loss of all those lives, and worth the political risks which Senator Goldfarb has already outlined? I might add that my fellow operatives were, too. NEILSEN (N.J.): Did you at any time prior to this sortie appreciate that you might have to sacrifice the lives of all but one of your fellow operatives in order to achieve a comparatively minor intelligence coup? The Navy has no record of any file of that title or description.ĮXCERPT FROM THE RECORD OF THE CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY INTO INTELLIGENCE PROCEDURES, MARCH, 1961 Nor can there be any substance in your claim that the USS Value was connected with what you call the Appomattox Situation.

There can be no basis whatever for your suggestion that the vessel was anchored at that time off the coast of Japan. Naval records show indisputably that the radio monitoring vessel USS Value was at Pearl Harbor on July 2, 1945, undergoing routine equipment repairs. Steeped in the sinister magic of ancient Japan and rich in exotic sensuality, Tengu is a terrifying novel of nuclear revenge–and Graham Masterton’s most stunningly horrific thriller to date. Now the demon is unleashed again–this time in a diabolical plot to wreak vengeance on America for the mega-destruction of Hiroshima. In Japanese mythology, the Tengu is the most terrible of all demons: a living force of evil that infects its followers with the mad strength of the berserk and the capacity to survive attack from any weapon.Īt the close of World War II, the Tengu was Japan’s most terrifying secret weapon. all America would one day fear the masked warriors of the Tengu.

Tengu by Graham Masterton