December 6, 2002 For more information: Frank R. Scatoni 619-807-1887 frank@ventureliterary.com "No Kill Date" Venture Literary Sells World Rights for a Pulitzer Prize Winner’s In-Depth Look at the Japanese Midget Submarine and its Role at Pearl Harbor On December 6, 2002, Frank R. Scatoni of Venture Literary, representing Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jack Reed and former Arizona Trend publisher John Craddock, sold the World rights to The First Shot: The Japanese Midget Submarine That Changed the World to Tristram Coburn at International Marine/McGraw-Hill. No longer a footnote in American history, the Japanese midget submarine, which was sunk by the first shot the U.S. fired in World War II, was recently discovered three miles south of Pearl Harbor. In The First Shot, Reed and Craddock recount the untold tale of this sunken submarine and what effect its discovery has had on the history of America. While detailing the chain of events that caused the U.S. to fire its first shot of World War II, the book will analyze the significance of the recent discovery of the Japanese submarine, what light it sheds on the "Day of Infamy," Japan’s reaction to the finding of the sub, and what more we may hope to learn from its recovery. In Hollywood terms, it’s the story of the little sub that started a big war. In 2000, National Geographic sent celebrity marine explorer Robert Ballard and historian Stephen Ambrose to find the sub but the team came up empty. In The First Shot, Reed and Craddock pick up where Ballard and Ambrose left off, telling the story of the sub’s discovery and the history behind the underwater warfare campaign launched by the Japanese at the onset of World War II. All but forgotten, this little sub precipitated the first American shot fired in World War II, produced the first Japanese POW captured by Americans, and remained a missing piece of the World War II puzzle——until now. Jack Reed won the Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting in 1985 for a series of articles he wrote about corruption in a Florida police department. He currently writes editorials and columns for the St. Petersburg Times. John Craddock, a former newspaper reporter and publisher of Arizona Trend magazine, whose work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, is the president of Progressive Media, a book packaging company that helped launch a series of guidebooks for The History Channel. To learn more about Venture Literary, visit: www.ventureliterary.com. To learn more about International Marine/McGraw-Hill, visit: http://books.mcgraw-hill.com/cgi-bin/pbg/im/index.html