Incommunicado

Just about everyone is incommunicado in the small, sleepy Oregon coastal town of Sea Park during winter.

Until Pearl Harbor, that is, when it springs to patriotic life.

But is Ruby Opal Pearl (a.k.a. Jewels) Stokes the only person to see whats really happening here?

Tommy Kasamoto, the one person in her life who has provided security, shelter, and a smidgeon of respectand who owns the biggest resort on the coastis now the cause of the towns rage.

Tommys Japanese ancestry makes him the prime target of an angry mob, not to mention hes also rich, has a shady past, and everyone in town owes him money.

As the town's patriotism blossoms into paranoia and turns violent, Jewels has to do something to protect Tommy from internment (or worse), even if that something is going up against the town and the government, not to mention the FBI.

Thus begins a fourteen-year-old girls war within a war.Randall Platts Incommunicado is both timely and timeless.

It's about the meaning of courage and the willingness to stand up for what's right, even when it goes against the prevailing attitudes of the time and place.

It's also about the insidious way groups and communities can nurture ignorance and prejudice.

But most of all, its an adventure story set in a town full of unforgettable characters, during a time of great intrigue and peril, no matter which enemy or on what front you fight.