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DEATH WATCH BEETLE, A Historical Post WWII Spy Thriller

DEDICATED TO WWII VETERANS

WHO SAVED EUROPE & THE

WORLD FROM TYRANNY



3 EDITORIAL REVIEWS BY HIGHLY RESPECTED MILITARY &

INTELLIGENCE HISTORIANS

Major General James Williams USMC (Ret)

Wrote the Foreword

Mike Baker ex CIA operations officer & contributor to Fox News

Col Robert Hicks USAF (Ret) Author of numerous books.

Professor of History at Belhaven University



NUMEROUS5 STAR REVIEWS ON AMAZON



AWARDED AN EXCELLENT REVIEW BY THE PRESTIGIOUS LITERARY GROUP



• TIME FRAME – THE COLD WAR – 1954/55

• ASPECTS OF THE STORY – BASED ON HISTORICAL EVENTS – FICTIONAL SITUATIONS – PERSONAL OBSERVATIONS

• WILL STIR MEMORIES AND IMAGINATIONS

• POLAND AND RUSSIA – POLAND AND GERMANY – DEPORTATIONS –ATROCITIES – POLISH AND JEWISH PERSECUTION

• THE NAZI FUGITIVE SOUGHT BY EAST AND WEST POWERS

• FINALLY THE AFRICA CONNECTION



WHY HAVE I DEDICATED

THE BOOK TO WWII

VETERANS?



• Some Background On David E. Huntley – The Author

• BORN LONDON – SURVIVED THE BLITZ

• BOMBING – COAL CELLAR SHELTER

• MORRISON SHELTER

• COLLECTING SHRAPNEL – EXPLORING BOMBED SITES

• MICKEY MOUSE GAS MASK FOR SCHOOL



SOME KIDS NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY WILL SLEEP

TONIGHT!

WAR TIME IN LONDON & YOUR FUTURE COCKNEY AUTHOR



MY FATHER ALBERT E.HUNTLEY SERVED IN BOTH WORLD WARS.

HE FOUGHT IN FLANDERS IN WWI AND WAS WOUNDED AND EVACUATED AT DUNKIRK IN WWII

AFTER DUNKIRK HE ACTED AS A FIRE WARDEN BY STANDING OUTSIDE OUR HOUSE IN CLAPHAM LONDON TO WARN ABOUT INCENDIARY BOMBS EACH NIGHT DURING THE GERMAN AIR RAIDS.



THE HOUSE WE OCCUPIED IN WAR TIME AT EDGELEY RD., CLAPHAM. THE SIDE ADDITION AND DOOR HAS BEEN ADDED SINCE THE WAR. HOUSES OPPOSITE WERE DESTROYED.



My room was right at the very top of the house





THIS ILLUSTRATES THE BOMBING IN CENTRAL LONDON



CLAPHAM COMMON & CLAPHAM HIGH STREET



DAVID’S HOUSE ON EDGLEY ROAD - CLAPHAM



MORRISON SHELTER



UNKNOWN TO ME AT THE TIME, MY FUTURE WIFE SOPHIE AND HER FAMILY IN FRANCE, WERE FLEEING FROM THE GERMANS.



SOPHIE AND HER FAMILY HAD TO SPEND SOME WEEKS ON THE ROAD.

GERMAN PLANES WOULD SOMETIMES SHOOT AT THE REFUGEES AND THEY WOULD BE FORCED TO JUMP INTO THE ROADSIDE DITCHES.

AT NIGHT THEY WOULD SLEEP ON STRAW FROM DESERTED FARMS AND KILL WHAT REMAINING CHICKENS THEY COULD CATCH AND EAT.

THEY WOULD SEE DEAD COWS LYING IN THE FIELDS AS THESE ANIMALS HAD DIED BECAUSE THEY HAD NOT BEEN MILKED.

EVENTUALLY, ONCE FRANCE HAD BEEN FULLY OCCUPIED, THE FAMILY RETURNED BACK TO THEIR HOMES.



Donald Caskie had been the Minister at the Scottish Kirk in Paris. As the Germans entered Paris he joined the mass exodus of citizens who were fleeing into the French interior.Quote!“I had caught up with a straggling mass of people when German and Italian aircraft streaked down from the sky. Machine guns spat indiscriminate death. Bombs thudded and exploded all along the road. Men, women and children were blotted out of existence in a few moments. Some died by the roadside, some quietly, some sobbing, others shrieking. Far away I heard the rumbling of guns, and behind us smoke was rising from tiny villages.The French Army had been defeated, and it seemed that Hitler and Mussolini had given orders to ‘mop up’ the French civilians.Half conscious, but curiously alert to danger, I flung myself into ditches all through the day. It is impossible to judge the trajectory of machine-gun bullets striking from the air; sometimes when the aircraft seemed overhead they went wide, sometimes inexplicably close and once, I felt them thudding into the earth a few inches from my head.The attacks ceased in the late afternoon and the sky was quiet again. I felt a wonderful sense of peace, I reveled in the freedom from the threat of instantaneous death. The road was under my feet and I drew deep breaths and enjoyed the air in my lungs. I was marching again.”



WHEN SOPHIE AND HER FAMILY WERE ABLE TO RETURN HOME, HER SCHOOL HAD BEEN REQUISITIONED BY THE NAZI’S FOR THEIR LOCAL HEADQUARTERS. HERE YOU CAN SEE SOPHIE IN THE SECOND ROW, SECOND FROM THE RIGHT.



IRINA DEMICH WHO STARRED IN THE 1962 FILM “THE LONGEST DAY” GREW UP IN THE SAME VILLAGE AS SOPHIE. SHE WENT ON TO APPEAR IN MANY HOLLYWOOD, FRENCH AND ITALIAN FILMS.

HERE IS IRINA IN 2003 WHEN SHE CAME TO STAY AT OUR HOUSE IN ALLEN TEXAS. SADLY, SHE PASSED AWAY FROM CANCER 2 YEARS LATER.



SOPHIE & I LIVING IN PARIS 1955

SOPHIE 2011



PIONEERING IN AFRICA 1957 BEFORE MOVING TO AMERICA IN 1978



GIVING YOU THAT PREAMBLE EXPLAINS WHY MY STORY IS DEDICATED TO WWII VETERANS WHO SAVED EUROPE FROM

TYRANNY, AND ENABLED MY FAMILY TO EVENTUALLY ENJOY LIFE IN THE USA



THIS STORY BEGINS IN THE ENGLISH TOWN OF HIGH WYCOMBE 20 PLUS MILES NORTH WEST OF LONDON.

US ARMY AIR FORCE – BOMBER COMMAND

1943 - 1951

8TH AIR FORCE 7TH AIR DIVISION HIGH WYCOMBE 1953 - 1965



COMBINED INTELLIGENCE SERVICES RECRUIT A LOCAL BRITISH BUSINESS EXECUTIVE, DONALD HARVEY, FOR A CLANDESTINE OPERATION TO FIND A MISSING WWII NAZI.

USING HARVEY’S COVER AS AN AVIATION INDUSTRY MANAGER HE IS RECRUITED TO HELP LOCATE A POLISH ÉMIGRÉ IN PARIS WHO CAN SHED LIGHT ON THE MISSING GERMAN.



HANS KAMMLER OF THE SS –

ARCHITECT OF THE DEATH CAMPS, THE SEALING OF THE WARSAW

GETTO & AT WAR’S END, IN CHARGE OF THE V1, V2 AND JET AIRCRAFT

PRODUCTION BUT ALSO FOR SUPER WEAPONS DEVELOPMENT

REPORTING DIRECTLY TO ADOLPH HITLER



GENERAL PATTON HAD MADE A DASH TO REACH THE POLISH/CZECHOSLOVAKIA BORDER IN AN ATTEMPT TO CAPTURE KAMMLER BEFORE THE RUSSIANS COULD SO.

PATTON WAS UNSUCCESSFUL AND THE NAZI WAS NEVER FOUND. STRANGELY, KAMMLER LIKE OTHER NAZI’S WHO DISAPPEARED OR ESCAPED, WAS NEVER TRIED IN ABSENTIA AT THE NUREMBURG WAR TRIALS.

HARVEY FOUND THIS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND AND WONDERED IF HIS MISSION WAS FOR LOCATING A NAZI WAR CRIMINAL OR TO LOCATE A MAN WITH A REPOSITORY OF FUTURISTIC WEAPONRY.



THE KGB ARE SEEKING THE SAME QUARRY & ATTEMPTING

TO SECURE THE SAME INTELLIGENCE LEADS AS THE

ALLIES.

THE 1100 YEAR OLD PARIS CHURCH IN HIGH WYCOMBE

BECOMES A FOCAL POINT FOR A DEAD LETTER DROP. THE

ENCRYPTED NOTE ORIGINATES FROM BEHIND THE IRON

CURTAIN.



MAJOR WALLACE ON HIS WAY THROUGH LONDON TO MEET WITH HIS MI6 COUNTERPART, CHATS WITH HIS

COCKNEY TAXI DRIVER AND REFLECTS ON THE SITUATION IN POST WAR

BRITAIN



HARVEY IS INVITED TO LONDON FOR A MEETING WITH MI6 AND TO BE VETTED FOR HIS ROLE TO HELP IN THE KAMMLER JOINT INTELLIGENCE PROJECT



SEVERAL CLANDESTINE MEETINGS ARE HELD ABOVE THE MUSEUM TAVERN ACROSS FROM

THE BRITISH MUSEUM


DEATH WATCH BEETLE, A Historical Post WWII Spy ThrillerTHE TRAIL LEADS HARVEY TO LONDON, AND THEN VIA TRAIN AND FERRY TO PARIS, AND EVENTUALLY DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA WITH NUMEROUS ESPIONAGE ENCOUNTERS AND REVELATIONS ON THE WAY

CLANDESTINE MEETINGS IN LONDON NEWHAVEN FOR THE CROSS CHANNEL FERRY



AS THE FERRY TRAIN LEAVES DIEPPE FOR PARIS, HARVEY PONDERS THE MISSION



USING HIS BUSINESS ACTIVITIES WITH THE SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED POWERS EUROPE (S.H.A.P.E.) IN PARIS AS HIS COVER, HARVEY IS ABLE TO SECURE INFORMATION FROM A POLISH ÉMIGRÉ THAT LEADS HIM TO AN AFRICA CONNECTION



HARVEY’S TIME IN PARIS IS SPENT AVOIDING SURVEILLANCE BY BOTH THE KGB AND THE FRENCH SECRET SERVICE.

HARVEY’S POLISH FIANCÉ ALICJA MEETS HIM IN PARIS AND HELPS BY PROVIDING COVER FOR HIS INTELLIGENCE BRIEFING OF THE POLISH ÉMIGRÉ.

THE KGB OPERATIVE, CODE NAMED ‘FALCON’ AND HARVEY GET INTO A DEADLY CONFRONTATION UNDER ONE OF PARIS’ FAMOUS BRIDGES. LE PONT D’ARTS



HARVEY’S FINAL MISSION TO FIND HERR KAMMLER, IS TO FOLLOW THE LEAD HE HAS OBTAINED, TO SOUTH AFRICA



DURBAN – SOUTH AFRICA



IT’S HERE THE STORY COMES TO A DRAMATIC AND CLIMACTIC FINISH



SOME OF THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY

USAF MAJOR & CIA AGENTS

MI6 AGENTS AND OFFICERS

BRITISH MANAGEMENT EXECUTIVES

RETIRED SECRET SERVICE OFFICERS

POLISH EX-FREE ARMY EMIGRES IN UK

RUSSIAN EMBASSY OFFICIALS

RUSSIAN SLEEPER AGENTS IN UK

RUSSIAN KGB AGENT/ASSASSIN (FALCON)

FRENCH SECRET SERVICE (DST) OFFICERS

FRENCH IMMIGRATION OFFICERS

EAST GERMAN STASI AGENTS

SOUTH AFRICAN SECRET POLICE

GERMAN CEO’S OF S.A. ENGINEERING CO’S

SOME OF THE PLACES IN THE STORY

HIGH WYCOMBE, BUCKINGHAMSHIRE

LONDON –NEWHAVEN – DIEPPE –PARIS

FONTAINEBLEAU - ROCQUENCOURT

PEENUMUNDE - EAST BERLIN

WARSAW – KIEV – LVOV

STUTTGART – FRANKFURT – HARARE

JOHANNESBURG – PRETORIA – DURBAN

DUNDEE – COLENSO – PINETOWN

WALVIS BAY



David's book is now part of the ship's library on board the Parisien yacht, Petrus III

Patrons who spend a few days sailing on the Petrus III can explore the numerous scenes and sights depicted in David's spy thriller and imagine Paris in the early 50's.



HOPEFULLY, IF YOU ENJOY THE BOOK, YOU WILL TELL YOUR FRIENDS AND WILL WRITE A POSITIVE REVIEW ON AMAZON. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING

ME TO ADDRESS YOU TODAY!

BENEFITS OF BUYING THIS BOOK:

ENJOYMENT OF STORY

HELPING TO REMEMBER WWII VETERANS

OPPORTUNITY TO WIN A FABULOUS PRIZE (WON BY A SWISS MAN)

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