Blog 2023 Malcolm Blair-Robinson

Dr. Rachael Benedict is an American historian and a best-selling author. Through the death of her estranged father she sets out to expose secrets from World War Two, which are so sensitive they have been subject to an extensive cover-up lasting seventy years.  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.
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.

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Democracies do not suffer coups because change is effected through the ballot boxes. Neither do they have purges of tens of thousands of officials nor do they have laws declared by decree. In Turkey all this is happening right now. This is unacceptable for a candidate for membership of the EU and certainly for membership of NATO. While the West must do nothing which will risk internal conflict or other upheavals in its ally,  another failed state is the last thing anybody wants, it must proceed with caution and urge a return to the secular and democratic principles which are the foundation of the modern Turkish state.