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The Plot for Blackest of Lies
Hi Folks,
Firstly, let me say that I am NOT the Bill Aitken who writes travel books about India! Oddly enough, I am a Scotsman like him and was born about 30 miles away from where he was born. Very strange.
But, even although you were expecting the other guy, stop a while and let me tell you about Blackest.
I first got the idea for Blackest of Lies (BoL) when I was serving with NATO in Norway. I was an officer in the RAF at the time. Subsequently, I did a lot of research when I was posted to the MoD in London. What I discovered was very odd, indeed. It seemed that Kitchener's journey to St Petersburg was betrayed - not only to his personal enemies, of which he had many, but also to the Germans themselves. He paid for it with his life.
But there is also something more sinister - two or three weeks before he left, he asked his gardener if they had taken on any new workers because he had seen two men he didn't recognize. Kitchener knew he was under threat of death from the IRA: were these his assassins?
What we do know is that, as he left his home for the last time preparatory to taking train and boat for Russia, he turned to his gardener and said "Take care of the roses, Dudeney. Make sure no-one tries to assassinate them."
Firstly, let me say that I am NOT the Bill Aitken who writes travel books about India! Oddly enough, I am a Scotsman like him and was born about 30 miles away from where he was born. Very strange.
But, even although you were expecting the other guy, stop a while and let me tell you about Blackest.
I first got the idea for Blackest of Lies (BoL) when I was serving with NATO in Norway. I was an officer in the RAF at the time. Subsequently, I did a lot of research when I was posted to the MoD in London. What I discovered was very odd, indeed. It seemed that Kitchener's journey to St Petersburg was betrayed - not only to his personal enemies, of which he had many, but also to the Germans themselves. He paid for it with his life.
But there is also something more sinister - two or three weeks before he left, he asked his gardener if they had taken on any new workers because he had seen two men he didn't recognize. Kitchener knew he was under threat of death from the IRA: were these his assassins?
What we do know is that, as he left his home for the last time preparatory to taking train and boat for Russia, he turned to his gardener and said "Take care of the roses, Dudeney. Make sure no-one tries to assassinate them."
