"Then came Bronson"...

Every good story needs a biker. Doesn't matter if it's "The Wild One", "Easy Rider", "Mad Max", "Stone", "Every Which Way but Loose"...or the old '60s television series "Then Came Bronson"...

No story of human perfidy is complete without a bloke on a motorcyle. Sometimes he's a mad evil toecutting bastard, sometimes he's a complete nonce like "Streethawk". But in THIS case - it was a bloke from Belfast in the UK called "phylo_roadking" on the Internet.

This is how I first got to know about this story. My mates in Sydney had told me about him, and how he'd dealt with an odd case on the Internet before, on a Sydney based history forum that was just starting up and had encountered problems. So when the told me he'd got involved in the Paul K. Harker story, I knew it was going to be a wowser!!!

Nowadays he's an administrator on http://www.feldgrau.net/ the other big Second World War site, where the owner and him and the Mods there have been turning things round lately. I'd been on it before, of course - it's bloody hard to research ANYTHING on the Internet about military history and NOT look at Feldgrau or AHF!

It looks like soon after he became a Site Admin there, he got interested in the whole bloody big questionmark hanging over BOTH "Directive 19" and "Honor Denied", Harker's second book. And his starting point - apart from the reviews written by people on the internet, and Victor Greto's article - was all the strange users on AHF...

The common name for this sort of fake user is a "sockpuppet" - in other words, someone with his hand up "someone" elses arse, opening and closing his mouth like a sockpuppet, and pretending to be a whole different person

...and when he looked at "Chance" - he pressed the Big Red Button...