The Plots of Men by William Honrath

'The Plots of Men' by William Honrath

Novels have been set in Milwaukee before, but The Plots of Men is uniquely MKE-centric. Local writer William Honrath, a first-time novelist, has produced a remarkably imaginative and well-crafted historical fiction set in 1934 Paris, Chicago, Munich, even Manitowish Waters, Wis.—but with all roads leading to Milwaukee.

The plot of The Plots of Men ? In the Upper Midwest, gangster John Dillinger is hired to provide security for a secret meeting; in Germany, the SS’ number two man, Reinhardt Heydrich, coerces a reluctant ex-judge to purchase a painting in Milwaukee by noted German American Carl von Marr; in Paris, Allan Dulles, the future CIA director, tests his spook skills with the femme fatale he dispatches t

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