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Here’s a sample from Chapter 2, “Association.”
You sure have some suspicious associates, Mr. Becker, the investigator began seconds after the door latched behind Eva.
What are you talking about? Paul asked derisively.
As if you didn’t know.
No, I have no idea what you’re talking about.
You have no idea, eh?
No, I don’t.
Well, your girlfriend here, Miss Eva de Witt, is a member of a group called Geuzenbond. That’s a far rightwing extremist group based in the Netherlands with ties to Germany and the U.S. Did you know that? Your friend Anneliese Helwig is a Christian nationalist and former member of the same radical rightwing group. She quit Geuzenbond because it wasn’t radical enough. As for your American friend, Seth Fischer, that’s another story. We’re still working on that one. But at first glance, it doesn’t look good, the investigator said and stopped.
Okay, wait a second here, Paul stammered. This is all nonsense … Give me a second, he said raising his voice … To begin with, Eva is not my girlfriend. I just met her today! And this Anneliese woman is not my friend. I just met her. I knew nothing about either of them. They were just helping me with my friend Seth. These are mere coincidences. As for Seth, I have no idea what you’re referring to.
What does your friend Seth do for a living, the investigator asked?
What’s the difference? Paul demanded. Anyway, we haven’t talked much about that.
So, you have no idea what he does for a living. Is that what you’re saying?
He deals in commodities, Paul answered.
Did he ever tell you what commodities he deals in?
No, he doesn’t talk about it much, if at all, and I never asked.
How did you two meet?
He came to a talk that I gave and introduced himself to me afterwards. We exchanged phone numbers. Then he called me about a week later. It might have been a couple weeks, or even a month. I’m not sure. We became friends by phone. I’ve only met him in person twice.
What was the topic of the talk?
What talk? Oh, my talk? What was the topic? I don’t know why that matters but let me think. Probably something to do with the surveillance state. You know, the role of social media, Google, Palantir, etcetera, in the AI-digital panopticon. I think the title was, “Pre-Crime and The Big Tech Deep State,” or something like that.
You have a problem with surveillance?
Who doesn’t?
People with nothing to hide.
The problem with surveillance is that the state can always …
The investigator cut him off. What do you do for a living?
Research and writing.
Have you ever wondered where Seth gets a seemingly endless supply of money? How it is he travels all over the world without the least of constraints? Have you researched that?
I haven’t thought about it much.
Well, you might want to think about it.
Why, what are you trying to tell me?
I’m trying to tell you that you are, shall we say, enmeshed, in a broad anti-Semitic network. The only question is whether you know it or not.
That’s ridiculous.
Right.
I’ve said everything I’m going to say then, Paul said.
At this the investigator looked as if he was leaving then stopped and demanded Paul’s phone.
Rectenwald, Michael. The Cabal Question (pp. 27-29). Kindle Edition. .
Scholar/author Dr. Rectenwald rocked it out with "The Cabal Question!"
Thank you Michael, that was good! That's a great way to tell this story! As I was reading this I thought of the movie 'Alone in Berlin'. I'd like to look more into the story of the author behind it that I think wrote the book 'Every Man Dies Alone' - and in his case he was a writer and died alone, writing of course ..