Five Decembers, Kestrel - B

                 Joe McGrady is a Honolulu PD detective who catches a gruesome double homicide a few weeks before Pearl Harbor. The murder of a young American man and a Japanese woman is front page news. Joe flies to Hong Kong following his prime suspect and is captured and taken to Tokyo when the war breaks out. A Japanese diplomat, Takahashi, rescues him from a harsh imprisonment. The young woman in Hawaii was Takahashi's niece, so he hides and protects Joe for the duration of the war in the hope that Joe will catch the killer after the fighting. Joe survives and catches up to his prey in Hong Kong. This is perhaps one of the most preposterous plot lines I've ever seen.