Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Mikhail Gorbachev was right to warn the West against instigating a new Cold War with Russia. The whole business of the Ukraine has been mishandled from the very beginning by the West. It does not take a super brain to work out that when the government in Kiev was overthrown and replaced with a Western leaning revolutionary coalition with some very unsavoury far right elements, there would be fear and anxiety among the Russian speaking majority in the Eastern provinces. A little common sense and a spirit of give an take would have readily diffused the tensions and produced a solution. It would have been very easy to work with Russia and allay her fears of an eastward march of NATO, which are every bit as real in Moscow as fear of a westward march of the Russians in the capitals of Europe.

Instead a path of demonisation of Putin and all things Russian became the prevailing mood which informed seriously misguided policy decisions. Sanctions are damaging western economic interests every bit as much as they are damaging Russia, witness the slowdown in Europe. Add the shambles in the middle east and you have a record of incompetence in statecraft rarely before equalled. It is time to get real.

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It is written in a modern style in a scene by scene format, with punctuation which follows reading flow rather than traditional rules. This creates a compelling  narrative, easy to read and hard to put down. This book is a work of fiction, but at its heart there is a real historical cover-up. This drives the plot, but almost all the events and characters are fictional. Some characters appear also in Hitler’s First Lady, but that is a novel much more closely linked to known historical facts and the true story of a family, which appears in both books as the Benedicts. Here most of their story is fiction, as are all the modern characters within the family and in the world beyond.

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Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. She has a British connection through her estranged father Saul, an English thriller writer. Saul, whose parents were of Anglo-German origin, has spent much of his life plotting to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years. As the time approaches for him to make his move to expose duplicity, murder and lies at the heart of the British State, he seeks Rachael’s help. This provokes a killing spree as parts of the security services of both Britain and the United States become engaged in the drama, with one side determined to get the secrets out and the other determined to keep them hidden.

Set equally in the United States and Britain, the narrative grips from the first page, transporting the reader to the heart of government both in Washington and London and on into the darkest corners of the secret states on each side of the Atlantic. Rachael battles forward to unearth the truth both from intrigues of the Nazi era, but also within her own family, surviving three attempts on her life, before finally achieving her goal. Not only does she expose the truth from history and from her own roots, she has to delve deep into her own emotions to find the truth about herself.