We’re T. C. Archer, the writing duo of Evan Trevane and
Shawn M. Casey. We met at an online advanced writer’s workshop about ten years
ago. Our collaboration began on a lark with the post WWII film noir story The
Pickle My Little Friend, and has evolved into nearly a dozen works, which
include the series we’re going to talk about today The Phenom League,
and the Daphne Du Maurier winner and romantic thriller, For His Eyes Only.
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Chain
Reaction is the first in our Phenom League series and is set during
WWII. For this series, we took a cue from the great Connie Willis, who writes
science fiction/alternate history that strictly adheres to our world history.
So how does a book get classified as alternate history when the history doesn’t
diverge from real world history? In our case, we call the alternate history
elements What you won’t find in the history books. We portray world
events as being credited to someone other than the real heroes behind the
scenes, which means these heroes never made it into the history books and were
expunged from existence. There’s a good reason for this anonymity…some of these
heroes weren’t quite human.
We
were kicking around the idea of some sort of superhero story, which led us to
the mid-twentieth century where heroes represented justice, truth, freedom and,
of course, the American way. This piqued our interest in WWII, an era rich with
intrigue, love, science, drama and, yes, love. During the war, questions were
raised on everything from Hitler’s obsession with the occult to the Ghost Army
that created tactical deceptions to fool the Germans.
Many
things that helped win the war are so fantastical that they border on fiction.
Consider an average man who decides to help the war effort and starts to spy
for Great Britain—without
actually joining British Intelligence! This man not only became one of the
greatest spies of all times, but was single-handedly responsible for the ruse
that fooled the Germans and allowed the Allies to land in Normandy. In Chain Reaction you’ll
find some of these fantastical elements sprinkled throughout the book, some in
the history books…some not.
Currently,
we’re working on the next two books in the series. The first is entitled Desert
Fox and takes place in El Alamein when
Rommel marched across Egypt.
Our hero is a five thousand year old mummy who has been guarding his pharaoh.
The second novel takes place in Chauny,
France, with
the underground Chauny Line where Allied soldiers were hidden from the Germans.
Our hero is a WWI pilot who was shot down and killed, but he never passed over. He must discover the secret weapon that the
Germans are reported as having. You might even see a space ship in this
book—after all, the Germans were experimenting with anti-gravitational flying
machines. You just can’t make this stuff up!
Chain
Reaction
For
love of county and a woman, Jordan Pierce must sacrifice his humanity.
Former Chicago
Detective Jordan Pierce put his life on hold in order to protect America's
secret weapon against the Nazis; The Manhattan
Project. But he can't protect himself against the disease eating away at his
humanity. Jordan discovers
how much of his soul this infection has devoured when he falls in love with the
woman who could destroy America.
Choosing her, means choosing the monster he's becoming, making him the most
powerful man he's ever known.
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Evan and Shawn
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