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    Brothers & Enemies
    Brothers & Enemies
    Brothers & Enemies
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    Brothers & Enemies

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    BROTHERS & ENEMIES
    Book 4 of
    COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS
    comprises
    BROTHERS & ENEMIES
    PRIVATE INTIMATIONS
    TROPIC OF TREASON
    •
    BROTHERS & ENEMIES
    Stalin was paranoid. He had good reason to be. He planned a new Terror. Somebody plotted to kill him before he could start the new cycle of arrests and executions. But it wasn't the Jewish doctors Stalin killed for it. The plotters were people Stalin overlooked as totally loyal, true patriots.
    •
    PRIVATE INTIMATIONS
    In immediately postwar Italy, among the reprisals and communist wrecking, Joshua Adams and Hillel Hirsch play off the Mafia and the Camorra on the international black market to raise the funds to buy an entire nation, plus the loyalty of the yet-to-be Israeli they aid and abet against the British, who want only to send Jewish refugee ships bound for Tel Aviv to the bottom of the Mediterranean. In Ankara, meanwhile, their friend Kim Philby is hours from being exposed.
    •
    TROPIC OF TREASON
    William Harvey McQueen is the FBI's point man against Stalin's killer goons and atomic spies. Years before he would beintroduced to President Kennedy as "the American James Bond", he exposes spies with offices in the White House itself. Tropic of Treason tells how— and above all why — David Adams recruits Harvey McQueen to the CIA, where he exposes Burgess, McLean and Philby as Russian spies.
    •
    “Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.”
    New York Times

    “So bizarre, it’s probably all true.”
    London Evening News

    "This is an important book.”
    Sydney Morning Herald

    “Keeps up such a pace and such interest that it really satisfies.”
    Good Housekeeping

    “A masterly story that has pace, humor, tension and excitement with the bonus of truth.”
    The Australian

    “Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral and ecological concerns are important.”
    Times Literary Supplement

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAndre Jute
    Release dateOct 9, 2014
    ISBN9781310659140
    Brothers & Enemies
    Author

    Andre Jute

    André Jute is a novelist and, through his non-fiction books, a teacher of creative writing, graphic design and engineering. There are about three hundred editions of his books in English and a dozen other languages.He was educated in Australia, South Africa and the United States. He has been an intelligence officer, racing driver, advertising executive, management consultant, performing arts critic and professional gambler. His hobbies include old Bentleys, classical music (on which for fifteen years he wrote a syndicated weekly column), cycling, hill walking, cooking and wine. He designs and builds his own tube (valve) audio amplifiers.He is married to Rosalind Pain-Hayman and they have a son. They live on a hill over a salmon river in County Cork, Eire.

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      Brothers & Enemies - Andre Jute

      CONTENTS

      Book Jacket

      Start Reading BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      Family Tree

      Glossary

      More Books by André Jute & Friends

      Book Jacket

      *

      Book 4 of

      COLD WAR, HOT PASSIONS

      comprises

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS

      TROPIC OF TREASON

      *

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      Stalin was paranoid. He had good reason to be. He planned a new Terror. Somebody plotted to kill him before he could start the new cycle of arrests and executions. But it wasn't the Jewish doctors Stalin killed for it. The plotters were people Stalin overlooked as totally loyal, true patriots.

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS

      In immediately postwar Italy, among the reprisals and communist wrecking, Joshua Adams and Hillel Hirsch play off the Mafia and the Camorra on the international black market to raise the funds to buy an entire nation, plus the loyalty of the yet-to-be Israeli they aid and abet against the British, who want only to send Jewish refugee ships bound for Tel Aviv to the bottom of the Mediterranean. In Ankara, meanwhile, their friend Kim Philby is hours from being exposed.

      TROPIC OF TREASON

      William Harvey McQueen is the FBI's point man against Stalin's killer goons and atomic spies. Years before he would beintroduced to President Kennedy as the American James Bond, he exposes spies with offices in the White House itself. Tropic of Treason tells how— and above all why — David Adams recruits Harvey McQueen to the CIA, where he exposes Burgess, McLean and Philby as Russian spies.

      *

      Wild but exciting. A grand job with plenty of irony.

      New York Times

      So bizarre, it’s probably all true.

      London Evening News

      This is an important book."

      Sydney Morning Herald

      Keeps up such a pace and such interest that it really satisfies.

      Good Housekeeping

      A masterly story that has pace, humor, tension and excitement with the bonus of truth.

      The Australian

      Jute has clearly conducted a great deal of research into everything he describes, investing the novel with an air of prophecy. His moral and ecological concerns are important.

      Times Literary Supplement

      Cold War, Hot Passions

      Book 4

      *

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS

      TROPIC OF TREASON

      *

      André Jute

      *

      CoolMain Press

      For

      Roz and Charles

      *

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS

      TROPIC OF TREASON

      Copyright © 2014 André Jute

      The author has asserted his moral right

      First published by

      CoolMain Press 2014

      www.coolmainpress.com

      Editors:

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES Lynne Comery

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS Lisa Penington

      TROPIC OF TREASON Lisa Penington

      Glossary: Lisa Penington

      Cover Photo: Geloo

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this publication may be reproduced by any means without the written permission of the publisher.

      Cold War, Hot Passions

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      PRIVATE INTIMATIONS

      TROPIC OF TREASON

      André Jute

      Glossary

      RUSSIAN / TRANSLATION

      Bolshoi cheroy / ‘Big Boil’, euphemism for big shot, important personage

      Bolshoi drap / Big panic (in the face of German assault in WW2

      Chernozhopy / Black asses (racist epithet)

      Cheka / Secret Police

      Chekist / Member of the Secret Police

      Dacha / Country cottage/house/second home

      Ekaterinburg / Large city in Russia. Tsar and family executed here in 1918

      Electromontor / Torturer (usually with electricity)

      Frunze Ulitza / Street in Samara, Russia

      Glasnost / Openness and transparency

      Glavni protivnik / Main adversary

      Gulag / Acronym for the general administration of prison camps

      Kholkos / Those engaged in the construction of modern society.

      Khulighanism / Hooliganism

      Kolkhos / Collective farm

      Komsomol / Youth organisation

      Koshka-mishka / Cat and mouse, children's game

      Kremlin / Official residence of Russian Government

      Kulak / ‘Fist’, prosperous peasant

      Matushkas / Grandmothers

      MVD / Previously Cheka

      Nash / One of our own

      Nechevo / Nothing

      Nomenclatura / The higher officials of the Soviet Union

      Perestrelka / Shooting, euphemism for executions

      Perestroika / The overcoming stagnation program

      Petrograd / Later Leningrad/St Petersburg

      Pizda / Female genitalia (perjorative)

      Politburo / Political bureau of the Central Committee

      Referenture / Country-specific officers-in-charge

      Sluzhba / Pejorative slang term for secret police

      Smert spionam / Death to Spies

      Spetsnaz / Special Commandos

      Stukachi / Informers

      Tovarich / Comrade

      Veruyushchii / Literally believers, meaning the religious

      Vosdushna Desontniki Voist / Air assault forces

      BROTHERS & ENEMIES

      At the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956 in a secret session Nikita Khrushchev condemned Stalin for his mass murders of their fellow citizens and communists.

      ‘You were there. Why didn’t you stop him?’ a voice demanded from the floor.

      ‘Who said that?’ Khrushchev roared.

      There was a deadly silence, every man trying desperately not to look at his neighbour.

      ‘Now you know why,’ Khrushchev said.

      Anonymous Moscow joke

      1

      In 1953 the Kremlin kitchen was the only place in the Soviet Union where one could drink coffee. Anna invited them to take tea with her, but she offered the choice of coffee and they accepted. The coffee was a gift to Stalin from the Americans; Stalin carted it all the way from Yalta to Moscow in airtight containers. ‘The second or third lot of chemists are now looking for the poison,’ Anna said. ‘The ones who didn’t find it were shot?’

      ‘So I heard,’ Nikolai said.

      Sergei put his half-drunk mug of coffee on the table in the office where Anna kept the kitchen accounts.

      ‘You can drink with confidence,’ Anna said. ‘There is no poison except in Stalin’s mind.’ She poured more coffee.

      Madame Durnov opened the door without knocking and shuffled in with a plate of hard ginger cookies. ‘The Man of Steel likes these,’ she said to Sergei. ‘Why don’t you wear your general’s uniform? You look good in it.’

      ‘Because the war is eight years over, Mama,’ Sergei said. She was probably several years short of seventy but her mind was not always concentrated. If he did not call her Mama she would not reply.

      ‘Who is he, the grim-looking one?’ Durnova demanded, pointing her finger at Nikolai.

      ‘Nikolai Bibikov. You know him, Mama. He is my friend.’

      ‘Is he also a general?’

      ‘Now,’ Nikolai said. ‘In the war I was a colonel.’

      ‘So why don’t you wear your uniform? Are you, too, ashamed of it?’

      ‘I was proud to be a colonel who led real soldiers in the defense of the motherland,’ Nikolai said. ‘Being a political general is different. Be careful who you repeat that to.’

      She tilted his chin to look into his eyes. There was nothing either mad or absent about her eyes, Nikolai noted without surprise. She let his chin go, kissed Sergei’s cheek and went out, closing the door behind her.

      ‘Try looking less grim, Staritz,’ Anna said. ‘This is a social occasion, drinking coffee with the widow of a fellow Chekist.’

      Nikolai snorted.

      Sergei said, ‘I have news for you, Anna. Chekists don’t make social calls on the widows of their late comrades—because you never know who died on duty and who was shot by fellow-Chekists. The widows rightly suspect everyone who survived.’

      ‘Except Larissa and me.’

      ‘Larissa,’ Nikolai said flatly.

      They sat silently for a moment. Fourteen years ago Larissa protested against the Stalin-Hitler Pact to anyone who would listen and many who tried to shut her up. In her department she circulated a paper expressing the same view.

      She long believed that Stalin was playing cat and mouse with her, intending sometime to punish her for Nadezhda’s death, leaving her and the children free after Luki’s execution only to heighten the tension. But opposition to his foreign policy by the head of the foreign section of his finance ministry was a provocation Stalin could not ignore: Larissa disappeared into the camps. Sergei and Nikolai made no effort whatsoever to trace her. Instead they watched the two boys, who were still free. Stalin was now playing koshka-mishka not only with the survivors of the Kerensky family but with them: as long as they were Stalin's accomplices in jailing Larissa, the sons would not be harmed. They were convinced that the minute they tried to discover Larissa’s whereabouts the two sons would disappear.

      In 1941 Stalin confirmed Larissa’s theory when he told Nikolai that he blamed Nadezhda’s suicide on the evil influence of Michael Arlen’s novel The Green Hat, which she had been reading. The book was on the table beside her bed when she killed herself. Larissa gave Nadezhda the novel, or so Stalin said.

      This morning, fourteen years after Larissa disappeared, Sergei overheard Beria order that she be brought back to Moscow and tortured for information regarding the so-called Doctors’ Plot. Until then they did not even know she was alive. During the war many high Party officials held in isolators were shot to avoid them falling into the hands of the fast-advancing Germans. Larissa’s survival was the reason for their meeting this afternoon.

      ‘He is about to start murdering again,’ Sergei said. ‘It will be a bigger terror than any earlier terror even if only for the mechanical reasons that the security police is bigger and the filing system much improved. But the main reason is that his bloodlust has grown over the years. The Doctors’ Plot will be the pretext, like his murder of Kirov was the pretext twenty years ago.’

      ‘There is no Doctors’ Plot?’ Anna asked.

      ‘Stalin’s doctor is in ankle and wrist chains,’ Sergei said. ‘But if he plotted, he plotted with himself. No, this Doctors’ Plot is about Stalin’s hatred of Jews. Stalin told Ignatov beat, beat, and beat again! Poor Ignatov is terrified. He knows he’s finished. I heard Stalin tell him, If you don’t get full confessions, we will shorten you by a head. Of course Ignatov can extract confessions—but who knows what Stalin will consider a full confession?’

      ‘He’s killed about half a million since the war ended,’ Nikolai said. ‘But, spread over eight years, people don’t notice so much. Soon they will start noticing again.’

      Anna picked up one of the ginger cookies and turned it around in her fingers. ‘Isn’t it funny,’ she said ruminatively, ‘that everyone had the best time they could remember—during the most vicious war in human history?’ She looked up and into the eyes of each man to be certain they understood. They nodded. Anna was blessed with a brief fresh youth and then suffered a long dumpy middle age but now at fifty-four she was a figure of dignified authority with her white bun and her deliberate movements. ‘I remember, when the Germans attacked us, Stalin came on the radio and said, My brothers and sisters, the Rodina, our motherland, is under attack. I remember. People cried in the streets. Even in the bolshoi drap, the great panic when the Germans nearly took Moscow, I felt good wielding a pickaxe, digging up streets for trenches.’

      She picked up the plate of ginger cookies, made as if to offer it, then put it down. ‘The government went to the Urals. But Stalin stayed here, with us. I don’t know... If there is such a thing as a good

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