Inside the Book
Title: THE LIEBOLD PROTOCOL
Author: Michael & Kathleen McMenamin
Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
Pages: 389
Genre: Historical Thriller
Author: Michael & Kathleen McMenamin
Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
Pages: 389
Genre: Historical Thriller
BOOK BLURB:
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 are
sanctioned by the new government.
Mattie turns down an early request by her boss Hearst to go to
Germany to report on how Hitler will deal with the SA Brown Shirts of
Ernst Rohm who want a true socialist ‘second revolution’ to follow
Hitler’s stunning first revolution in 1933. Having been away from
Germany for over a year, her reputation as “Hitler’s favorite foreign
journalist” is fading and she wants to keep it that way.
Instead, at Churchill’s suggestion, she persuades Hearst to let her
investigate one of the best-kept secrets of the Great War—that in 1915,
facilitated by a sinister German-American working for Henry Ford,
British 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 interview the German nobleman who negotiated
the optics for rubber deal. There, Mattie lands right in the middle of
what Hearst originally wanted her to investigate—Adolf Hitler believes
one revolution is enough—and she learns that Hitler has ordered the 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 soon
known to History as ‘The Night of the Long Knives’.
Mattie must flee Germany to save her life. Not only does the
German-American working for Henry Ford want her story on the 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 purge and he’s secretly put her name on his list…
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