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Secret Truths presents a compelling premise, weaving historical elements with fiction in a way that is entertaining and thought-provoking. In a hybrid style of blending Fact with Fiction, the themes of resistance, survival, and personal identity, have created a gripping narrative of Historical Fiction.
The Fictional story uses 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, known as the Butcher of Lyon, and Che Guevara, the architect of the Cuban Revolution. Barbie has been protected for thirty-three years by the CIA to serve as their Butcher of Bolivia. When Che 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 and colleague, 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 are intertwined with the fictional characters.
The architectural format of the novel is multi-layered and multi-themed. Interweaving Evil and Good into the narratives, the reader feels the tension of History’s two dichotomies: governmental policy pitted against human interests.
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 through political events to survive. Each one becomes involved with history 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. There are the times when the fictional protagonists engage with factual people as Barbie, Che, Castro, President de Gaulle, Lee Harvey Oswald, and President John F. Kennedy.
Secret Truths is a kaleidoscope of Fact with Fiction, Truth with Crimes, Politics and Love, Evil with Good. It is a literary canvas where secret truths are little known and are waiting to be discovered.