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John 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. A 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. On November 16, 1963, President Kennedy helicopters to that ship, now a US Naval vessel called the USS Compass Island, as it steams off the coast of Florida to witness the firing of a Polaris missile clandestinely targeting Cuba's Fidel Castro. And so topple the first dominoes in a chain of events leading inexorably to the president's assassination one week later in Dallas, Texas. Who killed JFK -- the president and shipyard worker? The answers abide on the Compass Island 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.

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An entertaining alternative history account of the assassination of JFK. The level of detail was such that it had me wondering if the author really did have the inside scoop. Plenty of action and a number of surprises made The Compass Island Incident an enjoyable read. -- Dennis Royer The Compass Island Incident is a page-turning race through a tangle of past lives, conspiracies, and secrets. The story turns on the relationships shared by mean-spirited shipbuilder John Kincaid, his wife Alice and her former lover and later husband Jacob Manley. The karmic knots created by their actions in 1953 unravel fifty years later when their reincarnated spirits are drawn together by a retired CIA spy aboard the USS Compass Island, a decommissioned ship being towed to England for reclamation. Through flashbacks, author Wade Fowler unveils an intimate story of a damaged family and also delivers an alternate history retelling of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Fans of Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again or The Reincarnation of Peter Proud will enjoy the vibe. I know I did. -- Gerald Dubs

An entertaining alternative history account of the assassination of JFK. The level of detail was such that it had me wondering if the author really did have the inside scoop. Plenty of action and a number of surprises made The Compass Island Incident an enjoyable read. -- Dennis RoyerThe Compass Island Incident is a page-turning race through a tangle of past lives, conspiracies, and secrets. The story turns on the relationships shared by mean-spirited shipbuilder John Kincaid, his wife Alice and her former lover and later husband Jacob Manley. The karmic knots created by their actions in 1953 unravel fifty years later when their reincarnated spirits are drawn together by a retired CIA spy aboard the USS Compass Island, a decommissioned ship being towed to England for reclamation. Through flashbacks, author Wade Fowler unveils an intimate story of a damaged family and also delivers an alternate history retelling of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Fans of Kenneth Branagh's Dead Again or The Reincarnation of Peter Proud will enjoy the vibe. I know I did. -- Gerald Dubs

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