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Book Review Reviewed by Paul F. Johnson for Readers' Favorite Payback by Michael FitzGerald is an alternative look at history. It’s 1938 and the world is on the edge of disaster. The FBI decides to attempt to stop a new world war by assassinating Adolph Hitler. They know America can’t be involved so they decide to make it look like it wasn’t a government job at all. Deciding to collude with the Mafia for help, they have absolutely no plan to claim responsibility. The Mafia offers up Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel, a notorious hit man, totally aggressive and sometimes unstable. His nature makes him a dangerous, complicated element in the plan, but that can’t be helped. FBI agent Lugi Carmona, pretending to also be a Mafia hit man, enters Italy, along with Siegel, to carry out the assassination. Conning the Italian Mafia into thinking the target is their bitter enemy Mussolini, the pair must avoid rival gangs and the Italian...
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PAYBACK

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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...
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