The Aachen memorandum - Andrew Roberts

May 2nd 2045.Lestoq,an overweight,asthmatic,Fellow of All Souls College,Oxford,working for the Times,wakes up with a hangover and the sexiest secret policewoman in Europol.In the course of the next week he discovers that Aachen Referendum which ratified the Aachen Treaty of Complete Union and thus createdthe European superstate thirty years before,was rigged by a conspiracy within the European Commission.The Union is now xenophobic,corrupt and tyrannical.The royal family left Britain in 2016,and King William V of New Zealand is returning to London to make a speech commemorating the 100th anniversary of VE day.Lestoq has to get evidence of the referendum rigging-the Aachen Memorandum-to the king for him to tell the world in a huge rally at Hyde Park.No easy task,as a dark family secret,a murdered father and meetings with the English Resistance Movement are only a few of the obstacles which stand in his way...