...Than Living On My Knees - Paperback

by Harald Zieger (Author)

In September 1989, Egon Krenz, deputy chairman of the GDR State Council, was sent to Beijing to congratulate China's political leadership on successfully suppressing the "counter-revolutionary uprising" personally and on behalf of the SED polite office.

This is the historical background of the story of this book. The East German communists applauded the Chinese Communist leaders for the brutal massacre at Tiananmen Square. They considered at the same time suppressing the increasing protests against their own corrupt clinging to power using military forces against their own people. But those who were ordered to use deadly force against 70,000 demonstrators deny the execution of the order, and the rest is history.

But it could have come differently. Based on that historical fact, the story develops the alternative. In the fictional development, the communist leaders install a new agency equipped with power outside of any law to cleanse the elite from corrupt members as a signal to the people that the new leadership is the solution. Do the people fall for it? How does this new agency get set up? How is it Organized? What people are chosen for the job?

These questions will be answered in Part-1 of the book trilogy.