grav_ity | A Short Story

My friend Lindsay Smith has a GREAT Russian spy novel coming out on April 1. It's called SEKRET, and it is probably one of the best books I've read for 2014. It was blurbed by Elizabeth Wein, the author of CODE NAME VERITY, and it deserves it.

Lindsay has a short story on tor.com right now that's not set in the same time or the same world, but has the same sort of historical authenticity with an otherworldly twist. Obviously, I couldn't help but think of SANCTUARY, but it also made me think a bit of the NUMINOUS WORLD books, and where things might have ended up if Darkness had got there first.

Doppel: Told in a series of espionage transmissions, “Doppel” is the story of a British agent in occupied France. When he meets a charismatic SS officer who seems to be guarding a great and powerful secret, he must decide whether to abandon his mission and discover what the Nazi is planning. But the truth might be darker and more dangerous than anything the British—or the Germans—can imagine.