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My new audiobook is coming along great, based upon my just-launched, riveting novel, "Palette Knife: A Novel of Love, Intrigue, and Nazi Terror". It's 1937 Berlin, and pacifist and Expressionist painter Max Bauer--war hero-- gets a gig from the artistic-minded and twisted Adolf Hitler, and he and his half-Jewish, physician wife Frieda are in for very rough times indeed. So are their foes--the Nazi brass and their star henchman, General Siegfried Hock. Freedom of expression crashes into oppression and terror--which resonates today. Max and his artist friends and family are in the middle. Does violence come to the rescue? Enjoy this new, action-packed historical novel that has strong romance and right-angle conflicts, and is based upon true i ...more

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	Subversion: Life on the Edge of Eternity 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Lonely Pines: A Medical Short Story Wherein the Future Rescues the Past by R. Manolakas (Goodreads Author), Kenneth Campbell (Narrator) 3.70 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Palette Knife: A Novel of Love, Intrigue, and Nazi Terror

My new historical novel--set in 1937 Berlin--has just been released on Kindle and Amazon paperback with five-star reviews. Max Bauer, Expressionist painter and war hero, with his half-Jewish physician wife Frieda--take on the Third Reich and a sadistic yet refined Gestapo henchman.

Read about the modern imagination colliding with Nazi Terror, and Max's struggle to save his art--then far more--wres Read more of this blog post »

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Published on December 10, 2016 06:03 • Tags: historical-thriller, romance, terrorism, third-reich, tyranny

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