Publisher's Synopsis
Helmut's survival and that of his family depend on his ability to keep secrets. He is a secrets repository. Paramount is Helmut is a crypto Jew in German disguise with the SS Jewish inquisition ever present. Helmut designed the world's first jet. Helmut must deal with the SS-run camp with the nastiest reputation--Mauthausen-Gusen to build his jets and to improve their survival capability. Keeping secrets may be sheer folly, but don't tell that to the naturally paranoid. There is a difference in dying for a secret and dying with one. Helmut is a comedian without a club, a raconteur without a racquet, a playboy without a playbook. Parties don't start until he arrives. Women don't drool until he confidently strides into the room. Beds don't have enough springs for his athletic efforts.Trial and error is not a great design strategy for airplanes, especially if the errors lead one to trial. Willy Messerschmitt designed planes, pilots crashed them. Helmut tried to stay out of Willy's head shed where heads had already been shed. Heady days; bottomless nights! Anschluss brought an integration of Germanic industrial effort. Heil to the work, heil to the military, heil to the new German Reich, heil to the new red flag with the squashed black four-legged insect in the middle, heil to Das Fuhrer, heil to just about everybody and everything! After the Third Reich collapses, Austrian aeronautical engineers and designers from the first jet aircraft production plant in the world are hunted by Allies and Soviets for their super weapon inventiveness; and by Jewish organizations for their slave labor use and abuse in WWII. The final secret is Operation Paperclip brings Helmut and family to West Texas and out of reach of Soviet operatives and Jewish searchers. Compare to Shindler's List. It takes Allan Dulles and Henry Kissinger to find him and Moe Berg, the Jewish Boston Red Sox baseball super agent to insure his extraction.
