The Watchdogs of Abaddon: A Novel

New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1979. First Printing of First Edition Stated . Hard Back. Near Fine/Good. 5 1/2" x 8 1/2. 382 Pages including Bibliography. Red boards with darker red quarter spine and silver lettering. Dust jacket price $10.95 is unclipped and has some edge and spine wear. towards the end of World War 2 there were persistent rumors in Germany that Hitler had fathered a son, who was even then hidden away. Of the two women most often mentione as the boy's mother, the most plausible was a former nun, Sister Pia, whose infatuation with Hitler dated back to his ill-fated 1923 putsch. Why has the secret of his existence been so fiercely guarded: In 1978, through a series of accidents, a retired Los Angeles policemand and his son, a psychologist, pick up a trail that leads to the heart of the secret. They are forced to follow it to save their own skins. Clearly, they have stumbled on threatening information. Contents: Prologue, One Los Angeles 6-17 March 1978, Two Washington DC 20-22 March 1978, Three Germany 22-26 March 1978, Four Washington DC 5-9 April 1978, Five Los Angeles 15-17 April 1978, Six The Target 19-20 April 1978, Epilogue Los Angeles 21 Aporil 1978, and Author's Note Hitler's Children. Melchior is a motion picture writer-director-producer in Hollywood. Son of the Wagnerian tenor Lauritz Melchior, he graduated from the University of Copenhagen. In World war 2 he served with OSS spending two years in Europe.