An Occupation of Angels

€œSharp, brutal, cool€“yet also stunningly imaginative and perfectly realized.€ €“Michael Marshall, bestselling author of The Straw Men trilogy

AN OCCUPATION OF ANGELS
After Archangels materialize over the bloodbaths of WWII, they take up residence in most of the world€s major cities. But what would happen if, more than quarter of a century later, something somehow managed to kill these supreme beings? Killarney knows and, as an agent working for the Bureau, a British agency that€s so secret it doesn€t officially exist, she finds herself embroiled in the consequences as, one by one, the Archangels die.

Lavie Tidhar is the author of the linked-story collection HebrewPunk and the editor of the critically-acclaimed international fiction anthology The Apex Book of World SF. His novel MARTIAN SANDS will come out through Apex Publications in early 2013 and the second volume of The Apex Book of World SF is due in the winter of 2011.

DRM-free and priced at 99 cents for a limited time, AN OCCUPATION OF ANGELS is a novella of approximately 30,000 words.

"An Occupation of Angels is a breathless adventure story, finely crafted and rammed home with the assured confidence of an author very much in his stride."

"We travel with the protagonist from historic Paris to the remote, frozen wastelands of Siberia and beyond, perhaps even to Heaven itself. The action scenes are well-written and compelling. This is an adventure story, plain and simple." --Skull Salad Reviews, TJ McIntyre

"An Occupation of Angels is exhausting, but in a good way. Tidhar delivers a supernatural spy novella that gallops along at a break-neck pace. True to his usual form, Tidhar drops you into the middle of the action, only feeding you pieces of information as they naturally come up in the story. The result is that you're endlessly intrigued, both by what's happening, and where and when it's happening. Tidhar never falls into the trap of standing back and admiring the alternative history he's created. Rather, he uses it, with all its richness and mystery, as an effective backdrop to a cinematic thriller, and the reader is left hungry for more." --The Bookslave, J. Blackmore