Radically controversial and publicly reclusive author Dani Dubré offers up her latest novel in the thriller genre, once again exposing the underbelly of political power, and the evil machinations that drive it. "Whore of Madness" begins in 1961, and centers around Svetlana Dobrovya, a young Russian girl who falls in love with an American and inadvertently gets involved in a global alternative oil conspiracy. Caught up in KGB crossfire, Svetlana is kidnapped and sent to a "reorientation camp" where she was brutalized, then trained as a sexpionage agent.

Interview with Dani Dubre

Today Juanita Watson, Assistant Editor of Reader Views is talking with the very private and controversial author, Dani Dubre about her new novel “Whore of Madness.”

Dani’s major in college was political science which became a 35-year study of political power and the evil machinations that drive it as encapsulated in her novels within the thriller genre.  She withheld “Whore of Madness” as she patiently awaited confirmation of what she perceived the “hoax of the century,” which was confirmed during the last six months of 2006 as her novel reveals.

Juanita:  Welcome to Reader Views Dani, we are excited to have the opportunity to talk with you about your intriguing novel “Whore of Madness.” Would you start by telling us about your storyline?

Dani:  Thank You for the opportunity to share my writing with you and your readers and listeners. “Whore of Madness” is love story between a Russian girl (Svetlana) and a powerful and wealthy American who possesses the ultra-secret alternative fuel process that will tip the balance of world power.  The Soviets want it... an international industrialist wants it and decides to conspire with the Soviets to get it.   

Juanita:  This is a novel, but how much of “Whore of Madness” would you say is true , and how much speculation and fiction?

Dani:   I suppose you could say 40% is true ; 40% is fiction and 20% speculation. Svetlana’s experiences are based upon true occurrences as told to me.  There is no speculation regarding the alternative fuel process—it exists.  The plot, to all intents and purposes, was confirmed in December 2006 when Russia announced that they were nationalizing their mega oil/gas refinery complex on Sakhalin Island.  The Russians did, in fact, accept money and technology from the West (2 years after the so-called collapse) to develop their oil/gas resources--just as I had written into my story.

Juanita:  Why did you write this book?  What inspired this discourse?

Dani:  I wrote this book as a dedication to all the millions of souls lost under the Communist yoke—whose lives were hardly lived and so desperately cursed.  I write political intrigue because I loathe manipulators—especially those who have no regard for the innocents of this planet.

Juanita:  Would you tell more about Svetlana Dobrovya?  How does she become a pawn for the KGB?

Dani:   Svetlana committed the “mortal sin” of falling in love with a Westerner when she was only 17 years old. Her father was killed and she was sent to a “reorientation” camp where she was brutalized, then trained as a sexpionage agent.  (The Soviets trained young men and women in all the perversities as one very successful method of obtaining intelligence information from their enemies.) 

Juanita: Who are your other major characters?

Dani:   Major General Vladimir Bukorov — is the renegade KGB general who is convinced that his alliance with a former American diplomat can be used to his advantage. He convinces old guard cronies in the Politburo that he can save their Communist system, overthrow Gorbachev and, most importantly, secure their super power status through the alternative fuel process Ken Godwin stole from them in Berlin.

Vicki Cartier — is Ken Godwin’s young protégée in whom is the innocence of all that Ken loved in Svetlana and lost. Vicki is the lynchpin Bukorov uses against Ken, and whose life Svetlana is challenged with protecting—or destroying.

Juanita:  How would you describe the KGB and the Soviet Union during the 1980’s?  What about now?

Dani:   The KGB (now FSB) has functioned as the security apparatus for the Russian government. Since the so-called collapse, they have been engaged in Mafia-styled control and corruption within the “new democratic” Russia.  During the 1980s, the Soviets were fighting their own Vietnam in Afghanistan and draining their treasury of billions of rubbles.  They had just lost their (powerful) party ideologue, Mikhail Suslov (who mentored Gorbachev), and then, Yuri Andropov who headed the KGB since the late 1950s.  They were about implementing Lenin’s strategy of Glasnost (for the 14th time in their history) to convince the West that they wanted to be a democratic country.  What they did, in actuality, was to jettison all their non-producing states—including the Eastern Bloc—and “tore down the Berlin Wall” to convince the West of their conversion. With all due respect to President Ronald Reagan, I don’t believe he was the driving force that precipitated the tearing down of the Berlin Wall.  

Juanita:  What is the “hoax of the century”?

Dani:   The “hoax of the century” was in making their “illusion” of conversion believable. If the naive West believed that the Soviets and their KGB apparatus turned away from communism, terror, and subversion, the West would pour billions of dollars into their country—which is precisely what the West did.

Juanita:  How does the pursuit of oil, and the production of alternative energy sources play a part in “Whore of Madness”?

Dani:   In truth, the alternative fuel process does exist—it has since 1929 when it was given to I.G. Farben in Germany and which fueled Hitler’s “invincible war machine” until Allied bombers destroyed their synthetic fuel plants in the Spring of 1945.  The Soviet’s pursuit of the alternative fuel was within their grasp at the end of WWII, unfortunately, they never knew it. 

Whoever introduces the process into the world’s marketplace would have unfettered control over the world’s economy; the oil-rich producers within the Middle East, South America, and Russia would be rendered powerless—and stuck with a commodity no longer affordable or needed. 

Juanita:  How does Svetlana factor in to this unfolding chain of events?

Dani:   Svetlana is one of the KGB’s killer elite, known as the Premiere Bitch of the Soviet Union.  She remains a very beautiful woman with totally controlled emotions, but who has spent her life torn between loving and hating Ken Godwin who abandoned her with child—it is Svetlana’s hate for Godwin which General Bukorov, her KGB superior, believes will result in her carrying out her deep cover mission.  

Juanita:  Dani, what is your intention with “Whore of Madness”?

Dani:   My publisher and their literary attorney are promoting my book to film producers.

Juanita:  I imagine that “Whore of Madness” would be outstanding on the big screen.  Do you think the industry would be willing to put out such a politically charged movie?

Dani:   Actually, Juanita, the way in which I structured the book makes for an easy conversion to a screenplay.  Several politically charged movies have been released, as the “Shooter” just recently.  Ken, Svetlana, and Vicki are conflicted and as real as I could conjure them to be and whose psyche and level of emotional tolerance are at maximum velocity.  It’s sex, murder, and manipulation with the intrigue of a plot that should have people asking:  “Where does the fiction begin and end?”  It falls to my publisher and their literary attorney to find investors who have the guts to bring Whore of Madness to the screen. 

Juanita:  What specific research did you undergo to prepare for this particular novel?

Dani:   In addition to extensive research, I had the good fortune of interviewing defectors from the Soviet Union; those who had escaped Communist Cuba, Vietnam, and those who suffered under Communism in Hungary.  I also interviewed Nicaraguan Contra freedom fighters, and former Mujahadeen freedom fighters from Afghanistan when the Soviets occupied their country during the 1980s.  (While the Soviets were provoking unrest in Iran and bombing Afghanistan, the U.S. was supporting Saddam Hussein’s Iraq to prevent Soviet intervention.  (Saddam Hussein solidifed his power and, despite U.S. support, welcomed Soviet involvement in Iraq and became another Machiavellian “prince” within the Middle East.) 

Juanita:  How were you privy to information that is just now being seen in mainstream press?

Dani:  I did not have access to classified intelligence.  Call it woman’s intuition and analyzing the chain of events.  The fact remains that “a leopard doesn’t change it spots” and neither does a government that practiced and slaughtered millions under their 72-yera reign of Communist ideology. 

In October 1939, Churchill expressed his view of Soviet Russia:  “I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia.  It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key.  That key is Russian national interest.”  I would only add to Churchill’s statement by saying, “National interest as divined by Vladimir Lenin, and implemented by every Communist dictator since.

Juanita:  What does your novel suggest about present day politics?

Dani:   My novel suggests that the “game” of move and counter-move within present day politics is no different than it has been over the last fifty years.  It’s as if there is a concealed agenda, or a hidden authority constraining world leaders from asserting any meaningful power to effectuate change.  Even with the magnitude of technology within the theaters of conflict and war, successes are limited and perceived as ineffective.

Juanita:  A strong axiom that you stand by is “those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”  Would you comment, and explain how this applies to your novel?

Dani:    I don’t believe there is any true r axiom than “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.”  Machiavelli created the devil’s handbook—which every despot in the world studies and implements based upon:  The end justifies the means. I wrote Whore of Madness to show the evil that permeates mankind.

Juanita:  Dani, why did you decide to deliver your message through the fiction genre, as opposed to some type of nonfiction commentary?

Dani:  Fiction is a vehicle that allows total freedom and expression of thought— and which allows the author to create fictional characters that readers can care about, as well as hate.  In so doing, readers are exposed to ideas and history they might not have,  had the book been written as a nonfiction commentary.  Whore of Madness has enough love, sex, history and intrigue for male and female readers.  

Juanita:  Dani, I understand that you choose to remain quite a private person.  Why?

Dani:   I prefer anonymity so that my work can stand alone for what it is—rather than who wrote it.  I want honest reactions to my work without any strings of familiarity or obligation attached.

Juanita:  Is there any way for readers to contact you?

Dani:   The easiest way is through my publisher:  firstworks.mindspring.com

Juanita:  Dani, what do you enjoy about writing with such a strong political message?

Dani:    The strength of the “political message” rests entirely upon Truth. As an author, I am compelled to write what I believe to be the Truth that has been deliberately withheld from the people of every country across the planet.  After all my years of researching history and things political, I came to one undeniable Truth:  the evil that is manipulation has caused the slaughter of untold numbers of innocent lives—it is they who paid the price for Truth.

Juanita:  Do you have any other projects/books in the works?

Dani:  I have two other completed novels; one about a very damning and unknown fact regarding the Hungarian Uprising in 1956.  The other novel is about the relatively unknown subversion of the new “axis of evil” within the Western Hemisphere from Cuba through South and Central America who are hell-bent on destroying the United States.  It has only recently been announced that biological weapons are being manufactured in Cuba, compliments of the “former” Soviet Union.  (It’s only taken our government five years to admit this!)

Juanita:  Dani, thanks for the opportunity to talk with you about your new novel “Whore of Madness.”  You’ve presented some very interesting ideas which will surely get your readers thinking.  Before we depart, do you have any closing thoughts?

Dani:    Thank you, and yes, Juanita... I’d like to express my deepest thanks for the sincerity I have felt from all of you at Readers Views.  You perform a significant support system that—coupled with my publisher, their marketing group, and literary attorney—should broadcast awareness of Whore of Madness.  As a faith-based individual, the rest is in God’s hands...