Murder of an American Nazi by Tim Fleming
At the end of World War II the CIA, through a program called Operation Paperclip, evacuates Nazi scientists, doctors, and spies to the US, where they are provided with safe haven and jobs in our defense, aerospace, and intelligence spheres. One of the ex-Nazis, Walter Dornberger, turns up shot to death in southern Illinois in 1980. Don Hayes, the detective who investigates the murder, uncovers the truth of who Dornberger really was.
The investigation takes the reader on a journey to Nazi-occupied France, the German death camps, foreign coup d’états, the JFK assassination, and revolution in central America. One of Hayes’s suspects turns out to be a concentration camp refugee, Hannah Kanermann, whose mother and brother were brutalized by Dornberger. When Hannah discovers that the CIA helped Dornberger escape prosecution for war crimes and arranged for his safe passage to the U.S., she turns the tables on Dornberger, his Nazi cronies, and their CIA protectors.
Hayes’s investigation also blows the lid off other CIA atrocities such as the drugging and brainwashing of innocent, unsuspecting citizens (MK-ULTRA); the subversion of the free press in America, and its conversion into a propaganda wing of the military-industrial complex (Operation Mockingbird); and the overthrow of duly-elected governments around the world. Hayes eventually solves the murder of Dornberger but becomes disillusioned with his country along the way.
Though historical fiction, the book is a fast-paced conspiracy thriller for those who want to know more about the real history of post-WWII America. You can read the novel here.
Brief Bio of Tim Fleming
Born and raised in St. Louis, Tim Fleming attended St. Louis University High School, a Jesuit preparatory school, in the late 1960s. After one year at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, he was drafted into the US Army at the height of the Vietnam War. After being discharged from the service in 1974, he finished his education at the University of Missouri, graduating in 1978 with a bachelor’s degree in English. From 1978 to 1983 he worked as a freelance editor/writer. He entered the field of advertising in 1983 and worked as a copywriter and account executive until 1991, when he left the advertising field and returned to college for postgraduate courses in English Education. While completing his postgraduate studies, he found freelance work as a travel writer and manuscript editor. In 1993, he began his career in education as an English instructor at St. Louis Community College. He retired from SLCC in 2007 and has since pursued a career as a writer. Murder Of An American Nazi is his first published novel. Tim lives in southern Illinois with his wife, Gail.
