{"product_id":"the-compass-island-incident-november-1963-paperback","title":"The Compass Island Incident: November 1963 - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWade Fowler\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Franklin Kincaid clocks out at 4 PM on Thursday, August 27, 1953, after his shift at New York Shipbuilding Corporation's sprawling shipyard in Camden, New Jersey, never to be seen or heard from again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA little more than a decade later, a little girl is assailed by a terrible recurring nightmare. She dreams she is a man, buried alive in a dark compartment in the bowels of a ship under construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn November 16, 1963, President Kennedy helicopters to that ship, now a US Naval vessel called the USS \u003cem\u003eCompass Island\u003c\/em\u003e, as it steams off the coast of Florida to witness the firing of a Polaris missile clandestinely targeting Cuba's Fidel Castro. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd so topple the first dominoes in a chain of events leading inexorably to the president's assassination one week later in Dallas, Texas. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho killed JFK -- the president and shipyard worker? The answers abide on the \u003cem\u003eCompass Island\u003c\/em\u003e as the old ship casts off on its final voyage to the scrap yard in October of 2003 with descendants of John Franklin Kincaid on board and determined to solve not one, but two murder mysteries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 260\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 22, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47499209179357,"sku":"9781620060063","price":26.77,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/sGEEig_fyz9781620060063.webp?v=1771997016","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/the-compass-island-incident-november-1963-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}