The Wilson Duplicity: A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill 1929 Adventure

By Michael McMenamin and Kathleen McMenamin

Book 10

In 1929 America, Herbert Hoover is President of the United States and one of his personal heroes-in whose wartime cabinet he served-was the late President Woodrow Wilson who ran for re-election in 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of war". Yet only two weeks after his second inauguration on 5 March 1917, he asked Congress to declare war on Imperial Germany.

Based on information supplied by Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler a two-time Medal of Honor recipient who President Hoover once tried to have court-martialed for publicly insulting Italian dictator Benito Mussolini], Hearst's Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Mattie McGary discovers dark secrets in Woodrow Wilson's past that explain this abrupt, seemingly hypocritical about-face on the war-dark secrets used by the British Secret Intelligence Service SIS] to blackmail Wilson into seeking a declaration of war against Germany.

When President Hoover and the SIS learn of this, they are each determined to do whatever it takes to stop Mattie from publishing a story exposing Wilson's flaws and the SIS use of it to blackmail him into a declaration of war that prolonged the Great War for another two years, causing eight million more military and civilian deaths.

The McMenamin writing teams are award-winning, and one should not expect anything different from The Liebold Protocol. Three-Time Grand Prize Winner Fiction, Next Generation Indie Book Awards. Three-Time Thriller/Suspense Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews. Two-Time Historical Fiction Book of the Year, ForeWord Reviews.

Michael McMenamin is the co-author with his son Patrick of the first five award-winning 1930s era historical novels featuring Winston Churchill and his fictional Scottish goddaughter, the adventure-seeking Hearst photojournalist Mattie McGary. The first five novels in the series-The DeValera Deception, The Parsifal Pursuit, The Gemini Agenda, The Berghof Betrayal and The Silver Mosaic-received a total of 15 literary awards. He is currently at work with his daughter Kathleen McMenamin on the eighth Mattie + Winston historical adventure, The Prussian Memorandum. He is also the author of Becoming Winston Churchill, a joint biography of the young Churchill and his Irish-American mentor, the New York lawyer and statesman Bourke Cockran.

Kathleen, the other half of the father-daughter writing team, has been editing her father's writing for longer than she cares to remember. She is the co-author with her father of the 2018 novella, Appointment in Prague, A Mattie McGary + Winston Churchill World War II Adventure. She also is the co-author with her sister Kelly of the critically acclaimed Organize Your Way: Simple Strategies for Every Personality Sterling, 2017].

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1506915477
• ISBN13: 9781506915470
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: First Edition Design Publishing
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"