Kontrolle is a historical crime novel about behavioural conditioning programmes in 1950’s America.
Secret medical experiments are used in US-backed coups overseas, beginning with the covert invasion of Vietnam in 1945.
The scientists discover that mind research also has a civilian application.
The techniques can be used to groom docile consumers Back Home.
With their hidden desires manipulated, they turn into controllable ‘Happiness Machines,’ who won’t object to the crimes against humanity committed in their name.
However, there is hope…
A decent Army officer begins to uncover the conspiracy by unravelling black budgets.
But only President John F. Kennedy has the power to ‘smash the CIA into a thousand pieces.’
Can he do it them before they do it to him? We all know how the story ends.
Kontrolle concludes on November 22nd 1963.
After a breakfast of waffles and eggs, two shooters wearing dogtooth slacks and sports jackets take a walk around Dealey Plaza in Dallas. They are ‘like football players inspecting the pitch, before the big game.’
The book explores the darker side of human nature, and how it can be exploited in the ‘interest of national security’ – and, of course, for personal pleasure.
Assassination, alcoholism, antisemitism, cover-ups, narcotics – the attributes of genocide run through the lives of the conspirators.
Paedophilia, paranoia, racism, rape, sexual abuse are the shared experiences of perpetrators and victims.
Crucially, the narrative also plays with the modern phenomenon of conspiracy theory, a part of popular culture, as commonplace as pop music and soap operas.
Kontrolle is the first book in a series.
The prequel EastRush is set in Germany between 1927 to 1954.
The sequels For The Coming Man and New American Holocaust unfold between the late ’60s and the present day.