For 20-year-old Jack Bleakley volunteering for an unspecified 'dangerous mission' and thus becoming one of a select group of wireless interceptors at the beginning of the war in the Pacific was the start of the experience of his lifetime. Jack's war service, his remembrances of the momentous events of that turbulent time and his extensive research into the actions, impressions, and memories of his fellow 'eavesdroppers', have culminated in this enthralling and vivid history.