A
new eBook edition of The DeValera Deception, by Michael McMenamin &
Patrick McMenamin, begins the award-winning series of Winston
Churchill Thrillers weaving history, intrigue, thrills and romance
during the era leading up to World War II. It was a 2010 Grand Prize
Winner-Fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and named
both 2010 Historical Fiction Book of the Year and 2010
Thriller/Suspense Book of the Year by ForeWord Reviews.
Cleveland,
OH, USA -- In the summer of 1929, Weimar Germany's secret
military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons systems
beyond the Ural Mountains is coming to a critical point. Both
countries want to dismember the newly revived Poland in a war of
revenge To distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish
Free State is placed at risk by the arms dealers and financiers of
the shadowy "Geneva Group" intent on fomenting an IRA coup
d'état In Ireland with weapons and munitions purchased in America.
British
Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald gives Winston Churchill a secret
assignment on his 3-month holiday in North America. Aided by agents
from MI-6, Churchill is to persuade President Herbert Hoover to
prevent the IRA weapons purchase from reaching Ireland. Suspicious of
the anti-Irish bias of MI-6, Churchill assembles his own team to
gather evidence.
One
is Mattie McGary, Churchill's goddaughter, an risk-taking
photojournalist for William Randolph Hearst's media empire. Another
is Bourke Cockran Jr., a law professor, former military intelligence
agent, and the son of Churchill's old Irish American mentor.
Attracted to each other, romance blooms, but their tempers often
clash as the two follow a danger-filled trail from New York to
Montreal, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco and Los Angeles to
discover who is funding the IRA and where the arms are being
assembled. Along the way, they receive help from such colorful
historical characters as Irish revolutionary leader John Devoy;
Chicago gangster Frank Nitti; future head of the OSS, William J.
"Wild Bill" Donovan; the legendary Jack Manion, head of San
Francisco Police Department's Chinatown Squad; William Randolph
Hearst; and, of course, Winston Churchill himself.
Michael
McMenamin is the author of the critically acclaimed Becoming Winston
Churchill, The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor.
His son Patrick McMenamin is an award-winning journalist who has
produced stories for ABC News, Fox News, HuffPost and Buzzfeed.
Visit
the authors at: http://www.winstonchurchillthrillers.com
/ http://www.facebook.com/WinstonChurchillThrillers.
Genre
- Churchill, Hitler, Weimar Germany, Irish Free State, IRA, Poland,
Anti-Semitism, Nazi
The
ebook version of The DeValera Deception ISBN 9781506906058, published
by First Edition Design Publishing
(http://www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com),
is available on-line wherever ebooks are sold.
Media
Contact:
Michael
McMenamin
+1(941)921-2607
