It’s 1945 and the story of one family’s war is about to begin. From the calm fields of Sweet Water, Alabama and the hell of Okinawa to the dawn of a nuclear age and its awful potential, Solly, Silace and Sky George bear witness to the brutality of war and the unleashing of a new and terrible weapon.The family upbringing of love and friendship bonds them tightly together but will it be enough on the long and uncertain road ahead.
Retired US Detective Emil Janowitz lied to his wife for nearly forty years. Having lost his entire family whilst an inmate of Auschwitz-Birkenau it was simply easier on his soul to invent a past than face up to the demons buried deep inside. Life was good, but then the mail arrived bringing a letter which would result in a voyage of discovery, denunciation and confrontation with the past. Life is a journey, history should not be forgotten, the evil still exists.
The sleepy little town of Sweet Water, Alabama, provides the backdrop to this tale of adventure. Lincoln Beck’s avid enthusiasm for his childhood comics of space exploration fuels and guides his dream of becoming an astronaut. Supported by his best friend, Rose, he embarks upon a path to try and fulfil his vision. From the idyllic summers of their youth, together, they commence a journey that will lead them into lifelong bonds with a dopey looking wandering Bassett hound, encountered one summer, and a squad of young hopefuls from the United States Air Force basic military training ‘class of 58’. The journey is not without some rocky roads but true friendship and love light their path as Lincoln strives to accomplish the requirements needed to be considered for the Apollo space programme.
Eugene Kennedy has a new job. He’s to locate, capture, denounce and put to trial Nazi war criminals of the Second World War. Simple enough, one might think, but when a long-forgotten file of papers is found in the attic of a female former camp guard, the discovery of a reference to the existence of an unsigned ‘Final Order’ commanding the SS to destroy the remaining Jews in Europe leads him into the dark internet world of Neo-Nazis., the preparations made to create a Fourth Reich and a truth that shocks him and his colleagues to the core.
In Sweet Water Alabama, one family has had it's fair share of war, still Christian George does his duty, like his father before him. The Vietnam War was different to other wars though, this was a war that couldn't be won, one that kept men imprisoned for years until Operation Homecoming was agreed, a programme that was designed to bring young men home from years of incarceration, their story had only just begun.
The wartime files retrieved from the loft of a former camp guard at Belsen provide a name and a cropped photo of a meeting with Martin Bormann, Hitler's personal secretary and the second most influential man in the Nazi Party. The problem is that even the world renowned Nazi hunters, the Wiesenthal Centre, haven’t heard the name before and no one knows what its owner looked like. Trying to find the answer will take the investigators down a dark path of human experimentation, gene manipulation and the possibilities of the rise of a Fourth Reich..
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