Before D-Day, Eisenhower's typewriter was sabotaged.
Four trained OSS men died trying to fix it.
Hank went fifth.
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4-F.
Asthmatic.
Civilian.
Worst man you could send into a war zone.
Only man who could save the machine.
History gave the credit away.
I kept the receipts.
The Blackjack Harrigan Files is a twelve-book historical thriller series about the wrong people who saved the right history. The repairman. The comedian. The magician. The animator. The writer. The witness. People with the wrong résumé, the wrong training, and the one skill nobody else had.
Each file is a classified mess somebody buried because the truth made the official heroes look smaller. I kept the receipts.
Official history is tidy
because dead men are quiet.
Mine were not. — B.J. HARRIGAN / FILE LOG
Hartford. June 1944. Eisenhower's Royal Quiet De Luxe was sabotaged days before the largest amphibious invasion in human history. The orders, the requisitions, the tactical plans, the field hospital records — all of it typed. The machine on his desk had to type.
Four trained OSS men died trying to fix it. So I sent in Henry J. O'Malley — Hartford typewriter repairman, 4-F draft status, asthmatic, civilian — because he was the only man who could.
Typewriter. Radio signal. Magician. Camera. Code. Fire. Different decade. Same sickness. The world almost ends, and the person who can stop it is the one nobody would have picked.
The Blackjack Harrigan Files is published by Ledger House. Author: Ross Dunbar.