The Raven Deception

First and foremost - if you love a good historical fiction tale, you ~must~ read Michael Murray's Raven first. The Raven Deception is the sequel to Raven, and if you don't read it you won't have a clue as to what's happening in The Raven Deception. This story picks up a year after August Street, a researcher at the H.P. Carlisle Foundation, has published his book entitled Raven about a British actor portraying Adolf Hitler from 1940 to 1945. When Street refuses to sign a document stating that Raven is nothing but his creative fiction, the H.P. Carlisle Foundation along with British Intelligence work hand-in-hand to "erase" Street; stealing his bank account and all his property. He goes to England to track down any evidence that will lend credence to his story, and also to get his life back. Chapter 15 picks up with a flashback to 1936-1940, when American Steven Dietrich is in Berlin for the Olympics and is recruited by Edward Wiles, a British Intelligence agent working on discovering anything the Crown can learn about Hitler's plans for all-out war. Dietrich was a central character in Raven, and the precursor to the flashback shows his grandson (with the same name) receiving his grandfather's hand-written memoirs given to him by his grandfather's college roommate. A couple of the later chapters are duplicated from Raven, but they help to tell the story of Dietrich's role in Archie Smythes' portrayal of Adolf Hitler. Chapter 24 comes back to the present with August Street's predicament of trying to get his life back before the British government can find him and make him disappear for good. He eventually does "win", but his tormentors don't get as much payback as they so richly deserve. This is an excellent historical "what if", but again - read Raven first.

Read Raven! then Read this book,The Raven Deception. Could this all be true? Don't jump too soon that this is just fiction. If this is true,you will never look at world war two the same way.Theses two books will keep you up all night. Thanks Michael Murray, Please give us more great books.

If the author's first obligation is to maintain the reader's interest, Michael Murray has succeeded in The Raven Deception. I like cerebral stories combined with action and this works both ways for me.