Coming in the Fall 2011
The Gemini Agenda
A Winston Churchill Thriller
By Michael McMenamin and Patrick McMenamin
ISBN 978-1-936274-37-6 / e-book ISBN 978-1-936274-38-3
In the Spring of 1932, Winston Churchill receives ominous intelligence from a confidential source in Germany. Naked bodies, drained of blood, eyeballs extracted, are left at ten remote locations scattered across the U.S. Serial killer? Or worse? Churchill‘s source believes answers are to be found in Germany.
The out-of-office British statesman passes on the information to his American publisher William Randolph Hearst who assigns Mattie McGary, his top photojournalist and Churchill‘s god-daughter, to investigate the strange deaths. Aided by her lover Bourke Cockran, Jr., a former Army counterintelligence agent, they learn that all ten victims were twins. Five sets of fraternal twins. In doing so, they become the target of an international conspiracy reaching from the canyons of Wall Street to the marble corridors of the Barlow Palace in Munich, home to the fast-rising Nazi Party.
In a deadly encounter at laboratories on Long Island‘s fabled Gold Coast, Mattie and Cockran discover there are ten more missing twins—identical twins—on their way to Germany. They are still alive but for how long? With additional information from Churchill‘s private intelligence network, the two embark upon a rescue mission which leads them to a sinister clinic deep in the Bavarian National Forest near the small border town of Passau where Adolf Hitler lived as a child.
In their quest to rescue the twins, the risk-taking Mattie and the ruthless Cockran find their own often rocky relationship tested. And never more so than when they join forces with two of Mattie‘s former lovers. Together, the unlikely allies risk their lives to expose a secret project financed by leading U.S. industrialists and elements of the U.S. Army‘s Military Intelligence Division to enable Nazi scientists to kidnap and conduct lethal experiments upon American twins in hopes of unlocking the secret to creating a master race.
The Gemini Agenda, the third in the Winston Churchill Thriller series, explores the true horrors of the eugenics movement in the U.S. where, by the 1930s, science in the service of politics had delivered the state-sanctioned sterilization of 50,000 American women and led directly to Dr. Josef Mengele‘s mutilation of twins in “scientific experiments” at Auschwitz.
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Copyright © 2011 by Michael McMenamin & Patrick McMenamin
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eISBN : 978-1-936-27424-6
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