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Secret Truths begins its story with Klaus Barbie, Butcher of Lyon, and leads the reader to Che Guevara, architect of the Cuban Revolution, and continues with Lee Harvey Oswald, assassin of President Kennedy, and to leaders in America’s government.
Secret Truths offers a hybrid style of blending historical Facts with Fiction. The architectural format of the novel is multi-layered. By interweaving Evil and Good, the reader feels the tension of History’s two dichotomies: governmental policy pitted against human interests. Themes of resistance, survival and personal identity, have created a gripping narrative.
Secret Truths continues plot and characters from the award-winning series, Transylvanian Trilogy (Wayzgoose Press, 2021). The characters become involved in the intrigue by being part of a riveting chase from the U.S. to Europe and on to South America.
The Factual background narrates the story of Klaus Barbie, right-wing Fascist Gestapo chief during World War ll, who has been protected for thirty-three years by the CIA to serve as their Butcher of Bolivia. Yet, when Che Guevara arrives to the Andes Mountains in 1967 to begin a revolution, only one can survive.
The main fictional protagonists are Anca, Romanian-born doctor, who has relocated to New York, and her friend, Vera, who is in love with Charles, a German aristocrat whose family lives in Bolivia and is intertwined with Klaus Barbie. The fiction becomes more exciting as facts enhance the storyline, and facts become more actual as they intertwine with the fictional characters.
Yet, the world that Secret Truths offers the reader, is of Historical Fiction, and the two main female protagonists, Anca and Vera, serve as dramatic voices. Each woman creates her own life as she journeys with politics and forges forward in an existentialist need to direct her own destiny. But sometimes, the two friends find challenges that are stronger than their willpower, especially when they interface with historical leaders as Klaus Barbie, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy, President de Gaulle and the CIA.
Secret Truths is a kaleidoscope of Fact with Fiction. All the factual information is true, while the fictional parts are imaginary. With this blending comes a series of coincidences that just don’t happen by chance. And when coincidences happen, things come tumbling down to a narrative of secret truths.