The Quiet War

“As the E.U. makes final preparations to expunge member state sovereignty in pursuit of its higher aim – a single European state; a clandestine power struggle is raging between the gargantuan E.U. institutions,” explains Peter Widdows, author of The Quiet War.

“For years the European Parliament has struggled in the shadows of the European Commission, which makes all of the laws and controls all of the resources. But the Treaty of Lisbon gave the Parliament new powers and it’s determined to exercise them,” adds Peter, whose book follows the story of Sean McManus, a journalist drawn into the deception when an MEP he interviewed is murdered.

Determined to find out the truth, Sean picks up the trail of corruption and deceit that led to his death. His investigation takes him on a journey through the venal E.U. halls of power to a grotesque neo-Nazi organisation, which believes that the Second World War never ended and the current peace is nothing more than a ceasefire. Suddenly fighting for a cause he’s not sure he believes in, or fully understands, Sean confronts 1930’s German ideology and sacrifices everything he’s ever dreamt of for love.

“It’s not in any way an anti-Europe diatribe – it’s a fast paced thriller, that uses real E.U. laws and ways of working to inform the story, leaving the reader to form their own opinion about the motives of the various institutions,” adds Peter.