Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

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Purple Killing

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.

Hitler’s First lady

Lise Bauer is born in Africa in 1906, brought to England by her parents from where she is expelled with them in 1914, because her father is an East Prussian. They settle in America and become Americans, but return to Europe in the 1920’s. Here Lise is involved in the rise of the Nazi party, marries one of Hitler’s closest associates and later has a relationship with Hitler himself, before divorcing her husband and marrying an English friend of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. The novel offers a new view of Hitler’s sexual relationships, a plot to overthrow Churchill and the flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. Using historical characters often portrayed in a new light, this fictional account challenges the accepted view of recorded history.

The reader is drawn into the heart of both the governments in London and Berlin to find convincing portrayals of both Churchill and Hitler which offer surprising insights into the men behind their images.

The eminent surgeon and Labour peer Lord Darzi was right to say last night that obsessing over ‘creeping privatization’ of the NHS by Labour was a mistake. What matters to patients is the delivery of services and as long as they are free, it is irrelevant whether they are provided by the state or private providers. What matters is the quality of the service and its timely availability.

Labour’s trump card in the election game is the NHS, but as bridge players know, trumps are limited in number and have to be played with skill to win. Other players at the table have trumps of their own. The issue is not private providers. The issue is a service divided into compartments which do not talk to each other, hierarchical structures which create artificial barriers causing delay and a failure to integrate care and services into seamless delivery at point of need.

To this can be added two more must do changes about which we never hear because the medical professions are too powerful and the politicians too chicken. NHS doctors should not be allowed to moonlight in private practice while building up waiting lists in their hospital clinics to provide willing customers, and hospitals should be open fully for all services 24/7 and 365 days a year. It would take a big change in working practices and three eight hour shifts, but it is doable and should be done. Then we could kiss goodbye to waiting lists and targets and the huge bureaucratic industry they have spawned.

AMAZON.UK      AMAZON.COM

Follow the links to my Author pages on Amazon and download FREE both these linked historical novels based on real events in WWII. Promo ends tonight Pacific Time, so hurry!

Purple Killing

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.

Hitler’s First lady

Lise Bauer is born in Africa in 1906, brought to England by her parents from where she is expelled with them in 1914, because her father is an East Prussian. They settle in America and become Americans, but return to Europe in the 1920’s. Here Lise is involved in the rise of the Nazi party, marries one of Hitler’s closest associates and later has a relationship with Hitler himself, before divorcing her husband and marrying an English friend of Hitler’s deputy, Rudolf Hess. The novel offers a new view of Hitler’s sexual relationships, a plot to overthrow Churchill and the flight to Scotland by Rudolf Hess. Using historical characters often portrayed in a new light, this fictional account challenges the accepted view of recorded history.

The reader is drawn into the heart of both the governments in London and Berlin to find convincing portrayals of both Churchill and Hitler which offer surprising insights into the men behind their images.