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| Alexander Palka, 2008 |
Charlotte - It's been three years since popular English author Alexander Palka retired from writing, but not before releasing his bestseller N-Au-zi, a non-fiction book about the fortunes Hitlers third Reich took from its victims and dispensed in various locations around the world, more commonly known as Nazi gold. Many of my more chemically savvy readers may have noticed Palka's clever inclusion of gold's chemical symbol, Au, into the word Nazi. "I'm proud of the title" said Palka when we interviewed him in 2009.
Throughout the entire novel Palka made the case that all money or gold traced back to the victims of Hitler's army must be seized by the Interpol and dispensed evenly amongst the victims families.
Palka famously used the final chapter of N-Au-zi to announce his retirement and decision to move on to his true love, reflooring old Argentinean homes.
" I spent three years of my youth in Argentina and the thing that stuck with me the most was how beautiful the homes were. Especially the older ones. I've always wanted to go back and and renovate them. To save them from becoming dilapidated, condemned and eventually demolished." Palka went on to say. "And as many of my readers know when my career wasn't going so well, at least as well as it is now, I took up reflooring old houses to make rent. I think I'd like to go back to that".
And he did.
For the last three years Alexander Palka has been doing exactly what he said he was going to to do. He's been living in Argentina, fixing up old houses and running a reflooring business. Living out his days in sunny Argentina with beautiful his wife, Leslie, and their five year old daughter, Marie. It was the perfect ending to an amazing life story.
That is until three months ago when Palka ended his business and came out of retirement.
" We we're reflooring this old mansion, it's owner had just died, and everything was pretty normal" says Caesar Malendez, a former employee of Mr. Palka. " Then, all of the sudden he started acting very strange. He started saying stuff like, "Why the fuck did I have to talk all that shit?" and "It's gonna be hard to justify this one"".
Soon after he began acting strange he fired his employees, sold his reflooring business and moved to Switzerland. After several months of silence Mr. Palka resurfaced. Or in this case, it was Mr. Palka's new press agent who stuck his head out releasing the following press release.
Fans of Alexander Palka's works should be excited to learn that just three years after releasing N-Au-zi Mr. Palka has written another masterpiece. They should be even more excited to learn the book will be on the same subject that grabbed their imagination in N-Au-zi, but this time from a less pessimistic point of view. The new book will be titled, "Au Come On". A book from the perspective of someone with realistic views about what may, or may not have happened in Germany almost seventy years ago.
The following is an excerpt for the new book,
It's not like the money killed anyone. And the people the money belonged to, well, they're not missing it. So I don't know why if an honest business owner, and this is all hypothetical mind you, but if an honest business man were reflooring an old Argentinean mansion and found eighty-million in euros under the bathroom floor, he should be able to keep it. Now I want to examine the word hypocrite...
Well, whatever happened to Alexander Palka while he was reflooring that mansion, one thing is for sure, euros looks weird when written down. You'd think it would be "euroes", maybe even capitalized but nope. It's just euros. This is Z. A. Aycock from charlotte, sending it back to you Dan.
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