Payback

Payback Payback – Hit on Hitler - is an alternative history novel by Michael FitzGerald. It’s a novel filled with disaster and possibility that changes the course of world history. Payback is a ‘what if?’ novel based on some historical facts but which goes on to create a fictional story of an alternative history where a different future emerges. There were several assassination attempts on Hitler in real life during the 1930s but none of them was successful. Payback imagines that the Mafia is approached by the US government to supply an assassin to work with an undercover FBI agent to kill Hitler in Rome. It is essential that the assassination appears to be the work of gangsters rather than a government-sponsored killing. What if Hitler had been assassinated before World War Two? Who would fill the power vacuum? Who would take over in Germany? How would Mussolini react? Payback involves two main characters, the Jewish gangster Bugsy Siegel and h...