The Göring Gamble

In late 1934, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary closes in on exposing an international scandal that promises to be one of the biggest stories in her career.Through her godfather Winston Churchill and Rabbi Abba Hillel Silver , head of the largest Reform Jewish congregation in the United States, Mattie receives copies of documents showing that in early 1933, Nazi Air Minister Hermann Göring , began to create an illegal thousand-bomber air force forbidden to Germany under the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Shockingly, since Germany will not have the capacity to mass-produce advanced high-speed aircraft engines until mid-1935, Göring secretly purchased these advanced engines from American, British and French companies with the private approval of their respective governments.Meanwhile, agents from US Military Intelligence, Scotland Yard’s Special Branch and the French Deuxieme Bureau are prepared to use any means necessary to protect the secret of American, British and French companies selling aircraft engines to the Nazis Now all Mattie has to do is stay alive while she tracks down the sources inside these companies and verifies their documents.From the Wild Atlantic Way in Northwest Ireland to Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, Buffalo, Greenwich, New York City, London and Salzburg, Mattie races to interview her sources before they can be killed. Along the way she acquires some unlikely allies including the Jewish gangsters Moe Dalitz in Cleveland and Meyer Lansky in New York as well as Frank Nitti in Chicago. With additional historical supporting characters German Chancellor Adolf Hitler, President Franklin D. Roosevelt , New York attorney and Medal of Honor hero William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan, American media mogul William Randolph Hearst and Nazi SS Foreign Intelligence head Walter Schellenberg , The Göring Gamble is an authentic, action-packed historical adventure based on actual events. Michael McMenamin 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; Revised & Expanded Edition, First Edition Design, 2022]. He is a contributing editor for Finest Hour, the quarterly journal of the International Churchill Society, a former U.S. Army Counterintelligence Special Agent, a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers and the OSS Society. Kathleen McMenamin is an honors graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from New York University. She is the co-author with her sister Kelly of Organize Your Simple Strategies for Every Personality [Sterling, 2017] and a Contributing Writer for FreshWater Cleveland, a daily e-magazine.