Appointment in Prague: a Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill World War 2 Adventure

In the novella, , one woman, a British secret agent, sets out in May 1942 to single-handedly send to hell the most evil Nazi alive—SS General , the head of the SD, the domestic and foreign counter-intelligence wing of the SS; second in rank only to the head of the SS himself, SS Heinrich Himmler; and the architect of “The Final Solution” that will send millions of European Jews to their doom. When British Prime Minister authorizes the SOE—the ‘Special Operations Executive’— in October 1941 to assassinate Heydrich, he is unaware that the entire operation has been conceived and is being run by his Scottish goddaughter, the former Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearst photojournalist . The SOE is Churchill’s own creation, one he informally describes as the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare and, at his suggestion, Mattie becomes one of its Deputy Directors. Mattie has a history with Heydrich dating back to 1933 and a personal score to settle. In September 1941, when the man known variously as ‘The Blond Beast’ and ‘The Man With the Iron Heart’—that last coming from Adolf Hitler himself—is appointed of Bohemia and Moravia, the remnants left of Czechoslovakia after the Germans had dismembered it in 1939, Mattie is determined—now that he is no longer safely within Germany’s borders—to have him killed. She recruits and trains several Czech partisans for the task and has them parachuted into Czechoslovakia in December 1941. About the Authors is the co-author with his son Patrick of the award winning 1930s era historical novels featuring Winston Churchill and his fictional Scottish goddaughter, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary. The first five novels in the series— , and —received a total of 15 literary awards. He is currently at work with his daughter on the sixth Winston and Mattie historical adventure, the other half of the father-daughter writing team, has been editing her father’s writing for longer than she cares to remember. She is the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically acclaimed [Sterling, 2017]. The two sisters are professional organizers, personality-type experts and the founders of a home and life organization business. Kathleen is an honors graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and has an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University. The novella is her second joint writing project with her father. Their first was “Bringing Home the First Amendment”, a review in the August 1984 magazine of Nat Hentoff’s . While a teen-ager, she and her father would often take runs together, creating plots for adventure stories as they ran. Prague, SOE, Reinhard Heydrich, Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, Walter Schellenberg, OSS, Heinrich Himmler, Allen Dulles, Hugh Dalton.