The de Valera Deception - Hardcover

McMenamin, Michael; Mcmenamin, Patrick

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ISBN 10: 1936274086 ISBN 13: 9781936274086

Publisher: Enigma Books, 2010

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In the summer of 1929 Weimar Germany still has a secret military agreement with the USSR to develop new weapons beyond the Ural Mountains. Ultimately, both want to dismember the newly revived independent Poland, but to distract Britain from helping the Poles, the new Irish Free State is placed at risk by conspirators and arms dealers intent on fomenting an IRA coup d'�tat.Winston Churchill is about to travel to North America when the new Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald asks him to handle a secret assignment. The IRA intends to buy large quantities of arms in the United States and an SIS team will investigate. Churchill is to enlist American President Herbert Hoover to prevent the weapons from reaching Ireland. But Churchill has his own unofficial team gather evidence as well.Bourke Cockran Jr., a law professor and former military intelligence agent, is the son of Churchill's old Irish American mentor. Mattie McGary, Churchill's goddaughter, works for William Rand

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Michael McMenamin is the author of the critically acclaimed "Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor". A media defense lawyer and former Army counterintelligence agent, Michael is a contributing editor for "Finest Hour", the journal of The Churchill Centre in London and the libertarian magazine "Reason". Patrick McMenamin is an award-winning TV producer for John Stossel, formerly with ABC News 20/20 and now with Fox Business Network. He has travelled extensively in Europe, South America, and Asia.

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