TITLE: Huber’s Tattoo
RELEASE DATE: August 2017
AUTHOR: Quentin Smith
CATEGORIES: Historical Mystery/Thriller
PAGE COUNT: 468
ISBN: 978-1974412211
IMPRINT: White Stag
KEYWORDS: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Historical,
Nazi, Dystopian, Germany
ONE LINER:
“It is from the
midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs
up. Here it is that humanity achieves for itself both perfection and
brutalization.”
SYNOPSIS:
Imagine if the
secretive Nazi ambition to breed a super intelligent race in the 1930s had been
realised...
Huber's Tattoo
reveals the complicity of the German medical and scientific establishments in
the mechanics of engineering the Super Race.
Set in London in
2011, several loosely connected murders are gradually traced back to the
secretive and shocking Nazi eugenics program centred around Himmler’s
Lebensborn birthing homes. As this bizarre pattern becomes more noticeable, the
intellectually brilliant DCI Webber of Scotland Yard discovers, throughout the
course of his investigation, that his own links to the Lebensborn program, and
the murders themselves, are much closer than he could have ever imagined. A
parallel narrative, starting in Germany in 1936, follows the Nazi medical
doctors involved in this ingenious secret project to engineer Aryan super
intelligence. The two narratives eventually converge to create a thrilling
finish.
“It is from the
midst of this putrid sewer that the greatest river of human industry springs
up. Here it is that humanity achieves for itself both perfection and
brutalization.”
Huber’s Tattoo is
the extraordinary story of a relatively unknown aspect of Nazi history. Viewed
through contemporary characters who follow the clues back to the 1930s, the
story suggests the impact such fiendish tampering with medicine and human
development could have inflicted on future generations. Inspired by authors
such as C.J. Sansom and Patricia Cornwell, Quentin is fascinated by the concept
of engineering human intelligence, as well as the evil and misguided ambitions
of the Nazi Lebensborn and eugenics programmes of the 1930’s. Huber’s Tattoo
will appeal to fans of crime and historical fiction.
It
took years to nurture the fundamental idea behind this book into the
substantial novel that it is today. Still regarded as my magnum opus, the
concept of engineering human intelligence has long fascinated me, but it took
some time for all the pieces to fall into place and for the relatively unknown
Nazi Lebensborn programme to develop into the natural backdrop for this
thriller. There is a great deal of historical fact woven into this novel and I
am immensely proud of it. My readers must have felt the same way as they
propelled the book to runner up in The Peoples Book Prize 2015.
AUTHOR BIO:
In addition to
being an anaesthetist, Quentin Smith has a long-standing passion for writing.
He has published articles and papers in The British Journal of Anaesthesia,
Anaesthesia News, Anaesthesia and Critical Care, Hospital Medicine, Today’s
Anaesthetist, Spark, and Insight.
Following a
five-year term as editor of Today’s Anaesthetist, he undertook creative writing
study through The Writing School, New College Durham, The London School of
Journalism and then a coveted place on the Curtis Brown Creative fiction course
in 2014.
He is the author
of three previously published novels: The Secret Anatomy of Candles (Matador
2012); Huber’s Tattoo (Matador 2014); 16mm of Innocence (Matador 2015). Huber’s
Tattoo was runner-up in The People’s Book Prize 2015 and 16mm of Innocence was
a finalist in The People’s Book Prize 2016. His recent novels reveal his
interest in European history and the Second World War in particular.
AUTHOR LINKS: http://www.quentinsmithbooks.com
PURCHASE HERE:
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