The Puppeteer: The Tragedy Of The Fifteen Days

In wartime 1943 small towns along the North Carolina Coastal Plain were “invaded” by many thousands of Marines from Camp Lejeune and soldiers from Ft. Bragg. Cheap motels, cheaper booze, easy sex and young men with uncertain futures disrupted the life of rural Lenoir County. However, civilians and soldiers “got along.” That is, until a soldier hired a Marine to murder the soldier’s beautiful wife, and in a tragic case of mistaken identity the Marine murdered his co-conspirator’s teenage dau...