Oji-Spy Girls at the Gate [Paperback]

W T Naud (Author), Karen Chutsky (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 9, 2011

WT Naud's book is a humorous heart-felt M*A*S*H type account of the unconventional lives of CODEBREAKERS fighting the Korean War from the back lines in OJI-JAPAN. Using his NEW YORK STREET SMARTS, Naud managed to serve his country with the help of the SON OF A MAFIA DON, seventeen EX-KAMIKAZE WAITERS, Tokyo's infamous BLACK MARKET SAM, twenty stunning MISS TOKYO CONTESTANTS, rigged BINGO GAMES, a bag full of GOLF CLUBS and a breathtaking JAPANESE GIRL with COBALT-BLUE EYES. Underlying the M*A*S*H type antics that kept him from getting shipped to the FRONT LINES, is a compassionate story of the devastation the JAPANESE PEOPLE experienced during WWII and five years later we find a country still pockmarked with physical and emotional scars. "Though I was more akin to BUGS BUNNY than JAMES BOND, I had somehow managed to end up in the ASA, the ARMY SECURITY AGENCY, an organization so SECRET it denied it's own existence. "At OJI, the most SENSITIVE ASA BASE in the FAR-EAST, COMMUNIST SPY-GIRLS were luring GI'S into TRYSTS to get TOP-SECRET DECODED information about MACARTHUR'S WAR PLANS. I was CHARGED with STOPPING them. CODEBREAKERS were turning up DEAD... A beautiful ORIENTAL COMMUNIST RECRUITER wanted to seduce me.... My FIRST SERGEANT wanted to kill me... The JAPANESE BLACK MARKETEERS wanted me to stop screwing up their business... My best friend, the SON OF A MAFIA DON, kept trying to SHOOT himself so he wouldn't get SHOT fighting on the front lines..... All I wanted to do was PLAY GOLF and stay out of the TRENCHES in KOREA... AND IT'S ALL TRUE!" "Treat yourself to a large dose of Entertainment, Humor and Human Drama. WT Naud's book is better than M*A*S*H because it all really happened! I've known every character in the book." Peter Marshall/ MC Hollywood Squares "Oji is the culmination of a writing career in a styleof wit and wisdom that's well worth reading." Joel D. Swanson/ Writer for Network Series including the Dick Van Dyck Show and Mayberry Rfd.

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About the Author

WT Naud began his career in the 1950's as an OFF-BROADWAY ACTOR and worked with RONALD REAGAN in GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATER. He went on to Produce CAPTAIN KANGAROO and create numerous GAME SHOWS for the NETWORKS including the highly rated RHYME AND REASON on ABC and BLANK CHECK on NBC. His SCREENWRITING/PRODUCING/DIRECTING credits include numerous FEATURE FILMS starring actors such as MARSHA MASON, KEENAN WYNN, ROBERT LANSING and BERNIE KOPEL in an ENTERTAINMENT CAREER that has spanned over fifty years. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 438 pages
• Publisher: GROVESNOR SQUARE PRESS (December 9, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0615573762
• ISBN-13: 978-0615573762
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,434,829 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I started out in new York as an actor and was lucky enough to be around and a part of some of the works by the hot playwrights of the eary 1950's. I soon found my own creative ideas trumped performing those works of others. Case in point, my short stint in Tennessee Williams-Sweet Bird of Youth. After a few nights of waiting to go on and seeing the cast wittled down to a few by the playwright sitting in the alley with a typewriter on a crate in perpetual rewrites, I sarcastically exclaimed, "if he kills off any more actors I'll be out here doing a monolgue." I guess he heard me.
In the years that followed I produced Captain Kangaroo, worked with Ronald Reagan in General Electric Theater and created numerous game shows for the networks including RHYMAE AND REASON and BLANK CHECK. All the while my passion was SCREENWRITING and DIRECTING. I managed to make some independant films before the word became a household name with actors such as an 18 year old Marsha Mason, Keenan Wynn, Robert Lansing, George Stanford Brown and Bernie Kopel.
Now later in life I find I love the simplicity of just writing, just me and my words. For six years I worked on OJI_SPY GIRLS AT THE GATE, a memoir of my time in the ASA during the Korean War. I was kind of sad when the mad emotional roller coaster journey of writing it was over. But now that it is published I have moved into the phase of enjoying the reactions to it from the public.
Got to: www.ojispygirlsatthegate.com to read some episodes that didn't make it into the book and more about my Broadway Theater Career.