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More information about 1) Book about an American War Crimes Investigator or Prosecutor who, following the collapse of East Germany, investigates possible war crimes committed by the East German Government but discovers a decades old secret about a SS Officer who replaced the dead son of an American Kennedy-like family with his own son (the son is now running for President). The antagonists bodyguard murders people for him but he refuses and blackmails him when he discovers the secret mistress who he was sent to kill, has a five year old son with the antagonist. Another thing that I remember is the fact that the protagonist, at the end, says he'll reveal the truth in a book he's busy writing. Oh, and, the antagonist kills his SS father (now an elderly old man) in the forest 'cause he he doesn't want the truth to be revealed as well as the henchman who was blackmailing him (his body was dumped in a pile of tyres)

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1) Book about an American War Crimes Investigator or Prosecutor who, following the collapse of East Germany, investigates possible war crimes committed by the East German Government but discovers a decades old secret about a SS Officer who replaced the dead son of an American Kennedy-like family with his own son (the son is now running for President). The antagonists bodyguard murders people for him but he refuses and blackmails him when he discovers the secret mistress who he was sent to kill, has a five year old son with the antagonist. Another thing that I remember is the fact that the protagonist, at the end, says he'll reveal the truth in a book he's busy writing. Oh, and, the antagonist kills his SS father (now an elderly old man) in the forest 'cause he he doesn't want the truth to be revealed.
2) Book set in the present(ish) day about about a woman who takes a job looking after a wealthy Business man's 5-year-old nephew and falls in love with the man but he rebuffs her 'cause he's busy (his brother was killed and he's trying to save the business). In the end, he accepts her proposal of love.
Please help me!!!
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