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Pump Up Your Book is pleased to bring you Michael & Kathleen McMenamin’s THE LIEBOLD PROTOCOL Virtual Book Tour January 2 – February 28!

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Inside the Book

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Title: THE LIEBOLD PROTOCOL
Author: Michael & Kathleen McMenamin
Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
Pages: 389
Genre: Historical Thriller

BOOK BLURB:

Winston Churchill’s Scottish goddaughter, Mattie McGary, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist, reluctantly returns to Nazi Germany in the summer of 1934 and once again finds herself in deadly peril in a gangster state where widespread kidnappings and ransoms are sanctioned by the new government.

Mattie turns down an early request by her boss Hearst to go to Germany to report on how Hitler will deal with the SA Brown Shirts of Ernst Rohm who want a true socialist ‘second revolution’ to follow Hitler’s stunning first revolution in 1933. Having been away from Germany for over a year, her reputation as “Hitler’s favorite foreign journalist” is fading and she wants to keep it that way.

Instead, at Churchill’s suggestion, she persuades Hearst to let her investigate one of the best-kept secrets of the Great War—that in 1915, facilitated by a sinister German-American working for Henry Ford, British and Imperial German officials essentially committed treason by agreeing Britain would sell raw rubber to Germany in exchange for it selling precision optical equipment to Britain.  Why? To keep the war going and the profits flowing.  After Mattie interviews Ford’s German-American go-between, however, agents of Scotland Yard’s Special Branch are sent by Churchill’s political opponents in the British government to rough her up and warn her she will be prosecuted under the Official Secrets Act unless she backs off the story.

Left no choice, Mattie sets out for Germany to investigate the story from the German side and interview the German nobleman who negotiated the optics for rubber deal. There, Mattie lands right in the middle of what Hearst originally wanted her to investigate—Adolf Hitler believes one revolution is enough—and she learns that Hitler has ordered the SS to assassinate all the senior leadership of Ernst Rohm’s SA Brown Shirts as well as other political enemies on Saturday 30 June, an event soon known to History as ‘The Night of the Long Knives’.

Mattie must flee Germany to save her life. Not only does the German-American working for Henry Ford want her story on the optics for rubber treason killed, he wants her dead along with it. Worse, Mattie’s nemesis, the ‘Blond Beast’ of the SS, Reinhard Heydrich, is in charge of Hitler’s purge and he’s secretly put her name on his list…

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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, January 2

Book Feature & Tour Kickoff at PUYB Virtual Book Club

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Monday, January 7

Character Interview at The Literary Nook

Tuesday, January 8

First Chapter Reveal at Read My First Chapter

Wednesday, January 9

Book Feature at I’m Shelf-ish

Thursday, January 10

Guest Blogging at Lori’s Reading Corner

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Monday, January 14

Book Feature at Jody’s Book Reviews

Tuesday, January 15

Book Feature at My Bookish Pleasures

Wednesday, January 16

Interview at Blogging Authors

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Monday, January 21

Book Feature at The Writer’s Life

Tuesday, January 22

Book Teaser Feature at PUYB Book Teasers

Thursday, January 24

Book Feature at Stacking My Bookshelves

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Monday, January 28

Book Feature at C.A. Milson’s Author Blog

Tuesday, January 29

Interview at Pump Up Your Book

Thursday, January 31

Interview at Confessions of an Eccentric Bookaholic

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Monday, February 4

Interview at Literarily Speaking

Tuesday, February 5

Book Feature at T’s Stuff

Wednesday, February 6

Interview at Infinite House of Books

Thursday, February 7

Book Feature at The Avid Reader

Friday, February 8

Guest Blogging at Dear Reader, Love Author

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Monday, February 11

Guest Blogging at StoreyBook Reviews

Tuesday, February 12

Book Review at Sefina Hawke’s Books

Wednesday, February 13

Book Featured at Book Bloggin’ Princess

Thursday, February 14

Book Feature at A Title Wave

Friday, February 15

Interview at Nuttin’ But Books

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Monday, February 18

Guest Blogging at Mythical Books

Tuesday, February 19

Book Feature at As the Page Turns

Wednesday, February 20

Book Feature at Lisa-Queen of Random

Thursday, February 21

Book Feature at Write and Take Flight

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Monday, February 25

First Chapter Reveal at Nuttin’ But Books

Tuesday, February 26

Interview at Blogger News Net

Wednesday, February 27

Book Review at Books for Books

Thursday, February 28

Interview at The Writer’s Life

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