Hiss Snap Burn: A Blackjack Harrigan File No. 2

Everyone knows what Lucille Ball became.But what made her?In 1942, RKO's "Queen of the B's," sixty films in and still waiting for the part that mattered, begins picking up enemy radio through her temporary dental fillings. Rather than dismiss the impossible, Lucy follows the signal herself, drawing the attention of OSS Commander Blackjack Harrigan, who pulls her into one of his most dangerous classified operations: the hunt for a Japanese spy network hidden beneath wartime Los Angeles.Harrigan counts everything and trusts nothing, least of all the actress the war has handed him. But the hidden war demands more of Lucy than any studio ever did, forging the woman who will one day build Desilu, stand up to CBS, and change television forever.The operation was classified.The woman it made was not.Lucille Ball really told this story to Dick Cavett in 1974 on national television. She got a laugh. This novel is the version that stayed classified.Blackjack Harrigan File No. 2: Hiss Snap BurnBegin with Click Clack Boom, File No. 1: a 4-F typewriter repairman is dropped into occupied France because Eisenhower won't sign the D-Day orders until his sabotaged Royal QDL is fixed.