Cleveland,
OH, USA -- In the novella, Appointment in Prague, one woman, a
British secret agent, sets out to single-handedly send to hell the
most evil Nazi alive-SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the head of
the SD, the intelligence wing of the SS and the architect of "The
Final Solution" that will send millions of European Jews to
their doom.
Winston
Churchill in October 1941 authorizes the assassination of
Heydrich by the British SOE-the 'Special Operations Executive'
created by Churchill to 'set Europe ablaze'. He is unaware that the
entire operation has been conceived and is being run by his Scottish
goddaughter, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst photojournalist
Mattie McGary who joined the SOE at his suggestion after he
became Prime Minister in May 1940.
Mattie
has a history with Heydrich dating back to 1933 and a personal score
to settle. In September 1941, when the man known variously as 'The
Blond Beast' and 'The Man With the Iron Heart'-that last coming from
Adolf Hitler himself-is appointed Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and
Moravia, the remnants left of Czechoslovakia, Mattie decides-now that
he is no longer safely within Germany's borders-that he must die. She
persuades her boss at SOE to secure Churchill's consent. She then
recruits and trains several Czech partisans for the task and has them
parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December 1941.
An
increasingly impatient Mattie waits in London for word that her
agents have killed the Blond Beast. By May 1942, Heydrich still lives
and Mattie is furious. The mother of six-year-old twins, Mattie
decides-without telling her godfather or her American husband, the #2
man in the London station of the American OSS-to parachute into
Czechoslovakia herself and "light a fire under their timid Czech
bums". Which she does, but her agents botch the job and Heydrich
is only wounded in the attempt. The doctors sent from Berlin by
Hitler to care for him believe the Man With the Iron Heart will
recover. Mattie is determined this won't happen.
On
the fly, Mattie conceives a new plan to kill Heydrich herself. With
forged papers and other help from the highest-placed SOE asset in
Nazi Germany-a one-time lover-Mattie decides to covertly enter
Prague's Bulovka Hospital and finish the job. After that, all she has
to do is flee Prague into Germany and from there to neutral
Switzerland and home to London. What Mattie doesn't know is that
Walter Schellenberg, Heydrich's protégé and the head of
Foreign Intelligence for the SD, has been watching her every move and
has plans to stop her before she can reach Switzerland and safety.
Michael
McMenamin is the co-author with his son Patrick of the
award-winning 1930s era historical novels featuring Winston Churchill
and his fictional Scottish goddaughter, the adventure-seeking Hearst
photojournalist Mattie McGary. The first five novels in the
series-The DeValera Deception, The Parsifal Pursuit, The Gemini
Agenda, The Berghof Betrayal and The Silver Mosaic-received a total
of 15 literary awards. He is currently at work with his daughter
Kathleen McMenamin on the sixth Mattie and Winston historical
novel, The Liebold Protocol, to be published in fall 2018.
Kathleen,
the other half of the father-daughter writing team, has been editing
her father's writing for longer than she cares to remember. She is
the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically acclaimed
Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality [Sterling,
2017]. Kathleen is an honors graduate of Sarah Lawrence College with
an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University.
Visit
the authors at: http://www.winstonchurchillthrillers.com
/ http://www.facebook.com/WinstonChurchillThrillers.
Genre
- Prague, SOE, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill,
Walter Schellenberg, OSS, Heinrich Himmler, Allen Dulles, Hugh Dalton
The
ebook version of Appointment in Prague ISBN
9781506906348, published by First Edition Design Publishing
(http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com),
is available on-line wherever ebooks are sold. The 76 page print book
version, ISBN 9781506906331, is published by First Edition Design
Publishing and distributed worldwide to online booksellers.
Media
Contact:
Michael
McMenamin
+1(941)921-2607
