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Read how one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive in APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE by Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin #historical #thriller Share on X

Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin’s APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE Virtual Book Tour August 1 – September 28!

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Inside the Book

Title: APPOINTMENT IN PRAGUE: A MATTIE MCGARY + WINSTON CHURCHILL WORLD WAR II ADVENTURE
Author: Michael McMenamin & Kathleen McMenamin
Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
Pages: 160
Genre: Historical Thriller

BOOK BLURB:

In the novella, Appointment in Prague, one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive—SS General Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the SD, the domestic and foreign counter-intelligence wing of the SS; second in rank only to the head of the SS himself, Reichsfuhrer SS Heinrich Himmler; and the architect of  “The Final Solution” that will send millions of European Jews to their doom.

When British Prime Minister Winston Churchill authorizes the SOE—the ‘Special Operations Executive’— in October 1941 to assassinate Heydrich, he is unaware that the entire operation has been conceived and is being run by his Scottish goddaughter, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary. The SOE is Churchill’s own creation, one he informally describes as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and, at his suggestion, Mattie becomes one of its Deputy Directors.

Mattie has a history with Heydrich dating back to 1933 and a personal score to settle. In September 1941, when the man known variously as ‘The Blond Beast’ and ‘The Man With the Iron Heart’—that last coming from Adolf Hitler himself—is appointed Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, the remnants left of Czechoslovakia after the Germans had dismembered it in 1939, Mattie is determined—now that he is no longer safely within Germany’s borders—to have him killed. She recruits and trains several Czech partisans for the task and has them parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December 1941.

An increasingly impatient Mattie waits in London for word that her agents have killed the Blond Beast. By May 1942, Heydrich still lives and Mattie is furious.  The mother of six-year-old twins, Mattie decides—without telling her godfather or her American husband, the #2 man in the London office of the OSS—to parachute into Czechoslovakia herself and  “light a fire under their timid Czech bums”. Which she does, but her agents botch the job and Heydrich is only wounded in the attempt. The doctors sent from Berlin to care for him believe he will recover.

On the fly, Mattie conceives a new plan to kill Heydrich herself. With forged papers and other help from the highest-placed SOE asset in Nazi Germany—a former lover—Mattie determines to covertly enter Prague’s Bulovka Hospital and finish the job. After that, all she has to do is flee Prague into Germany and from there to neutral Switzerland. What Mattie doesn’t know is that Walter Schellenberg, Heydrich’s protégé and the head of Foreign Intelligence for the SD, is watching her every move.

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Meet the Authors

Michael McMenamin

Michael McMenamin is the co-author with his son Patrick of the award winning 1930s era historical novels featuring Winston Churchill and his fictional Scottish goddaughter, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary. The first five novels in the series—The DeValera Deception, The Parsifal Pursuit, The Gemini Agenda, The Berghof Betrayal and The Silver Mosaic—received a total of 15 literary awards. He is currently at work with his daughter Kathleen McMenamin on the sixth Winston and Mattie historical adventure, The Liebold Protocol.

Michael is the author of the critically acclaimed Becoming Winston Churchill, The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor [Hardcover, Greenwood 2007; Paperback, Enigma 2009] and the co-author of Milking the Public, Political Scandals of the Dairy Lobby from LBJ to Jimmy Carter [Nelson Hall, 1980]. He is an editorial board member of Finest Hour, the quarterly journal of the International Churchill Society and a contributing editor for the libertarian magazine Reason. His work also has appeared in The Churchills in Ireland, 1660-1965, Corrections and Controversies [Irish Academic Press, 2012] as well as two Reason anthologies, Free Minds & Free Markets, Twenty Five Years of Reason [Pacific Research Institute, 1993] and Choice, the Best of Reason [BenBella Books, 2004]. A full-time writer, he was formerly a first amendment and media defense lawyer and a U.S. Army Counterintelligence Agent.   

 

Kathleen McMenamin

Kathleen, the other half of the father-daughter writing team, has been editing her father’s writing for longer than she cares to remember. She is the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically acclaimed Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality [Sterling, 2017]. The two sisters are professional organizers, personality-type experts and the founders of PixiesDidIt, a home and life organization business. Kathleen is an honors graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. The novella Appointment in Prague is her second joint writing project with her father. Their first was “Bringing Home the First Amendment”, a review in the August 1984 Reason magazine of Nat Hentoff’s The Day They Came to Arrest the Book.  While a teen-ager, she and her father would often take runs together, creating plots for adventure stories as they ran.

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BLOG TOUR SCHEDULE

Wednesday, August 1

Book Feature & Tour Kickoff at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Interview at Pump Up Your Book

Thursday, August 2

Book Review at Books for Books

Friday, August 3

Book Review at Sefina Hawke’s Books

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Monday, August 6

Book Teaser Feature at PUYB Book Teasers

Tuesday, August 7

Book Feature at Bound 2 Escape

Wednesday, August 8

Book Feature at The Avid Reader

Thursday, August 9

Interview at I’m Shelf-ish

Friday, August 10

Book Review at Stormy Nights Reviewing & Bloggin’

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Monday, August 13

Interview at Blogger News Net

Tuesday, August 14

Book Feature at I’m All About Books

Wednesday, August 15

Interview at The Writer’s Life

Thursday, August 16

Book Feature at Nuttin’ But Books

Friday, August 17

Interview at Lori’s Reading Corner

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Monday, August 20

Book Feature at Stacking My Bookshelves

Tuesday, August 21

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Wednesday, August 22

Book Feature at T’s Stuff

Thursday, August 23

Interview at The Literary Nook

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Monday, August 27

Book Review at A Room Without Books is Empty

Friday, August 31

Book Teaser Feature at Blogging Authors

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Monday, September 3

Interview at Blogging Authors

Tuesday, September 4

Book Feature at A Title Wave

Wednesday, September 5

First Chapter Reveal at Read My First Chapter

Thursday, September 6

Book Review at The World As I See It

Friday, September 7

Interview at Books Can Be Deadly

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Monday, September 10

Book Feature at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

Tuesday, September 11

Interview at The Dark Phantom Reviews

Wednesday, September 12

Book Feature at Book Bloggin’ Princess

Thursday, September 13

Interview at The Pulp and Mystery Shelf

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Monday, September 17

Interview at As the Page Turns

Tuesday, September 18

First Chapter Reveal at My Bookish Pleasures

Wednesday, September 19

Book Feature at Write and Take Flight

Thursday, September 20

Interview at Book Publishing Secrets

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Monday, September 24

Book Feature at Book Cover Junkie

Wednesday, September 26

Interview at SheWrites

Thursday, September 27

AuthorTalks@Medium

Friday, September 28

Interview at PUYB Virtual Book Club

Book Review at The Book Connection

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