New York, United States Sep 24, 2020 (Issuewire.com) - Richard Messinger’s new book, ‘The Man With The Jagged Red Scar’ launched on Apple Books in August, an important literary addition to the genres of historical thriller and bio-fiction.
It is not every day that a Nazi U-Boat surfaces off the coast of Long Island as it does in this historical work of bio-fiction. This book follows the saga of an illustrious legal family as they encounter escaped Nazis living in post-WWII America. From the Nuremberg Trials to the Warren Commission, from Giverny and Paris to the darkest days of the death camps of Nazi Germany, to the peace and calm of the East End of Long Island that is shattered when a small band of Nazi saboteurs land on the shores of Amagansett in 1942, the book takes the reader on a roller coaster ride as the story of ‘The Man With The Jagged Red Scar’ gradually unfolds.
When Forrest Mills the lead attorney for the Warren Commission and his pianist wife Ellie, accidentally come across a sacred Kangling hidden away in a magnificent Michel Bouvier vitrine while on a visit to Monet's house in Giverny, their world turns upside down as they encounter the mysteries of this sacred Tibetan musical instrument. Upon returning home they realize that years earlier when a group of Nazi saboteurs ransacked their family home in the Hamptons, in their blood thirsty hunt for the missing fragments of the fabled Norman "Le Bayeux Tapestry" thought to be hidden away in a similar Bouvier vitrine, at 14 Skiphampton Road, sets into motion a series of events having devastating consequences for their family. These events begin to converge at the 1942 July 4th celebration in Amagansett Long Island, at the Mills family compound located on Skiphampton Road when the annual Regatta Race of the Hamptons faces a calamity of monumental proportions when the Nazi-U-Boat rams their family schooner, the Esmeralda sending its crew to the depths below. Not only is Forrest Mills faced with a menacing attack, but his wife and children are put in peril as they encounter escaped Nazis from Nuremberg Prison masquerading around as every day Americans both in NYC and Washington D.C. infiltrating both our government and every day American life.
Based on the true story known as the Amagansett Incident of 1942, the only time in American history that an enemy force succeeded in landing on our shores, Forrest and Ellie Mills confront escaped Nazis from Nuremberg Prison living side by side with them in the "cottages" that dot the coast of the Hamptons as well as on the Upper West Side of Manhattan including a crazed Nazi Psychiatrist, who after having facial reconstruction, ends up treating a young Lee Harvey Oswald in NYC in the mid-1950s. Several other storylines all converge during July 4, 1942, Independence Day Celebration, and Regatta at the Mills family compound, when the U-Boat surfaces and rams the Esmeralda, the family's schooner, creating untold havoc and panic for years to come.
Having had a military background for over several generations including his father, a WWII gunner in the Army Air Corps who was shot down by the Nazis over Northern Italy, saved by local partisans and then spending years in VA Hospitals and losing many family members to the ravages of Nazi Concentration Camps may have instigated Richard Messinger throughout the years of writing of the book. He is currently working on a sequel of ‘THE CRYING KANGLINGS OF GOD’ series. A Kangling is an ancient Tibetan instrument made from a human femur and plays a pivotal part in another storyline in ‘The Man With The Jagged Red Scar’. His knack for fiction, non-fiction, thrillers, biographies, science fiction, mythology, religion, natural history, and art all come together to form some of the best researched literary goals.
‘The Man With The Jagged Red Scar’ depicts history in its truest and most unadulterated forms as the reader travels back in time with the author, storyline, and characters. A story set in one of the most significant timelines of modern history, the book is gaining rapid traction across the world of bio-fiction and historical literature. The book ‘The Man With The Jagged Red Scar’ is available on Apple Books. You can also log on to its official Twitter and Facebook page for more information on the book and on Goodreads and Word Press for more information on the author.
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