Cleveland,
OH, USA -- In her latest adventure, The Liebold Protocol,
Winston Churchill's Scottish goddaughter, Mattie McGary, the
adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist, reluctantly returns to Nazi
Germany in the summer of 1934 and once again finds herself in deadly
peril in a gangster state where widespread kidnappings and ransoms by
the SA and SS are sanctioned by the new Nazi government.
It
didn't begin that way. At Churchill's suggestion, Mattie initially
investigates one of the best-kept secrets of the Great War-that in
1915, facilitated by a sinister German-American agent working for
Henry Ford, British Empire and Imperial German officials essentially
committed treason by agreeing Britain would sell raw rubber to
Germany in exchange for it selling precision optical equipment to
Britain. Why? To keep the war going and the profits flowing. After
Mattie interviews Ford's German-American go-between, however, agents
of Scotland Yard's Special Branch are sent by Churchill's political
opponents in the British government to rough her up and warn her she
will be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act unless she backs
off the story.
Left
no choice, Mattie sets out for Germany to investigate the story from
the German side and to interview the German nobleman who negotiated
the optics for rubber deal with the British. Once In Germany,
however, Mattie lands right in the middle of a potential civil war
between the SA Brown Shirts of Ernst Rohm who want a true socialist
'second revolution' to follow Hitler's stunning first revolution in
1933 and Adolf Hitler who believes one revolution is enough. Mattie
learns that Hitler has ordered his SS to assassinate all the senior
leadership of Ernst Rohm's SA Brown Shirts as well as other political
enemies on Saturday 30 June, an event known to History as 'The Night
of the Long Knives'.
Mattie
soon learns she is threatened from two sides and must flee Germany to
save her life. Not only does the German-American working for Henry
Ford want her story on the Great War optics for rubber treason
killed, he wants her dead along with it. Worse, Mattie's nemesis, the
'Blond Beast' of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich, is in charge of Hitler's
'Night of the Long Knives' purge and he's secretly put her name on
his list of targets...
The
McMenamin writing teams are award-winning, and one should not expect
anything different from The Liebold Protocol.
Three-Time
Grand Prize Winner Fiction, Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
Three-Time
Thriller/Suspense Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews.
Two-Time
Historical Fiction Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews.
Michael
McMenamin is the co-author with his son Patrick of the first five
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 eighth Mattie + Winston historical
adventure, The Prussian Memorandum. He is also the author of Becoming
Winston Churchill, a joint biography of the young Churchill and his
Irish-American mentor, the New York lawyer and statesman Bourke
Cockran.
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 father of the 2018 novella, Appointment in
Prague, A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill World War II Adventure.
She also is the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically
acclaimed Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality
[Sterling, 2017].
Visit
the authors at: http://www.winstonchurchillthrillers.com
/ http://www.facebook.com/WinstonChurchillThrillers.
Genre
- Ernst Rohm, SA Brown Shirts, Socialist Second Revolution, Reinhard
Heydrich, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Mattie McGary
The
ebook version of The Liebold Protocol ISBN
9781506907536, published by First Edition Design Publishing
(http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com),
is available on-line wherever ebooks are sold. The 168 page print
book version, ISBN 9781506907529, and hardback ISBN 9781506907512, is
published by First
Edition Design Publishing and distributed worldwide
to online booksellers.
Media
Contact:
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McMenamin
+1(941)921-2607
