Durham medic-turned-author explores Nazi eugenics in new thriller

1:50pm Friday 7th March 2014 in News By Mark Tallentire, Reporter (Durham)

Author Quentin Smith

A NORTH-EAST medic has published his second novel, exploring the horrors of Nazi eugenics.

Quentin Smith, a consultant anaesthetist at Sunderland Royal Hospital, set Hubers Tattoo in London in 2011.

Several loosely connected murders are gradually traced back to the Third Reichs attempts to produce a master race.

DCI Webber of Scotland Yard begins to uncover his own links to Himmlers Lebensborn birthing project and the murders themselves are closer than he could have imagined.

Mr Smith, who lives in Durham City, said: I have always been in awe of the history of the Second World War because it still feels very alive around us.

But he added: Its well recognised that were very fortunate to know the little that we do about the Nazis Lebensborn birthing programme.

In 1944 the retreating Germans hastily disbanded all operations and destroyed virtually every record. Only a few clandestine photographs and a handful of documents survived.

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Durham medic-turned-author explores Nazi eugenics in new thriller