The Autocrat - Softcover

Battersby, Tim

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798691022616

Publisher: Independently published, 2020

Synopsis

Many Nazi soldiers were arrested after WW2 and prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials, but some escaped justice and fled to Brazil, Argentina, and beyond. Many of them managed to slip into the United States using forged documents. The Autocrat tracks one such war criminal, a Nazi who worked at Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Buchenwald concentration camps overseeing Jews and killing many for his own sadistic pleasure. This man entered the USA on forged papers and through a series of deft moves formed a company in Detroit where he lived in anonymity for 17 years until one day a new employee recognized him as one of his captors from the camps and turned him in. The man panicked and vanished while Artemis Securities a company that hunted Nazi war criminals chased him across a dozen states. Luckily for the Nazi, he had an escape plan with multiple different IDs and a suitcase full of money, so was able to disappear at a moment’s notice.

The Autocrat is also the story of a US President who becomes corrupted by bribery and illegal business transactions, narrated by Jenny Harriman a teacher who inherits her uncles' sizable fortune after he dies. It chronicles how she not only inherits his large fortune but also his business empire that includes 107 companies that he owns around the USA. In order to understand the way he does business; she chooses to visit a number of his companies and in doing so discovers a side to her uncle she never knew. Jenny’s daughter Molly a young doctor at Walter Reed Medical Center is married to Stephen a Secret Service agent for the White House as part of the First Lady's security detail. After hearing the First Lady speaking Russian on the phone Stephen starts to suspect her of being less than the patriot she claims to be. Stephen then confides this information to his in-laws and a friend who is an NSA agent. In their investigation, Stephen and Ron subsequently discover a plot to unravel the very fabric of American democracy and do their level best to solve this perplexing mystery.
In an interesting subplot, Jenny Harriman discovers that her new personal assistant Cynthia Hawkins is, in fact, a survivor of Auschwitz and is also a Nazi hunter employed by Artemis Securities to track down Nazis who have managed to enter the United States illegally. Cynthia’s current case is to track down and arrest a fugitive who was a high-ranking Gestapo officer responsible for the death of thousands of Jews in concentration camps in Poland during WWII.
Never in her wildest dreams did Jenny a mild-mannered high school English teacher imagine that she would get caught up in such danger and intrigue, but as she learns about Uncle John she finds herself getting in deeper and deeper. Will she survive? The Autocrat takes a deep dive into the corruption that is fascism and ultimately finds a way for the United States to deal with electing a rogue President.

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798691022616
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 318