H.P. Albarelli has passed away.

[Peter Lemkin]

[quote=Magda Hassan]Terrible news! A life so tragically cut short. SO many plans and how much he loved his family! In between his own work he played a huge role in the lives of his grandchildren I can't imaging the empty hole left in their lives. May his memory be a blessing for them always.

Re the previous mention of Dr Mary's Monkey etc. He may have been a source for much of the books but in his communication with me he was very adamant that their conclusions where quite different to his and he did not support them as they stood. And it was one of his reasons for looking elsewhere for a new publisher and finding Skyhorse.

I do hope that the manuscript as it stands now is published on the net. The information wants to be free. Particularly it needs to be free of censorship. I have no idea who the second writer could be. I was unaware of such a thing too. I do wonder if it could be his daughter Nicole? Not for any particular reason other than closeness and familiarity with both the author and matter. And maybe they only stepped in when he had the original stroke? And there was expectation of recovery but help needed? Just putting it out there.

I will say now that HP was also involved in researching and hopefully producing works on human trafficking and the people and organizations behind it.

I've heard from a reliable source who knew Hank A. fairly well that there were two persons helping him on the book. In what regard they did not say, but they did say that it would NOT make any sense for either of them to have their name as the author[s].....so I assume they were doing research, fact checking, typing, editing or some other tasks. This person did not say that any of his family were part of his team, but he did not say otherwise either. So, what this person told me doesn't square with what the PR man at Skyhorse said. Skyhorse PR man could just be misinformed, being told something not true by the editor, or there could be something up. Skyhorse HAS published some VERY GOOD JFK [and related] books. Not all they publish in political non-fiction is great or even good [like books by Oliver North]....but that is not the point or the potential problem. The problem would be if they or some other forces wanted to suppress or change what HPA was working on. Also, according to my source, HPA had NOT yet gotten the MS to the point he felt it was complete - and while the legal team at Skyhorse had been giving him problems, the delay in publication also had to do with his not feeling it was 'done' to his satisfaction. So, I guess unless those two persons know what he wanted to add or change, I hope the book will come out as it was in his computer when he died - with nothing more than spelling and grammar, footnote changes.......