Flanders

Her fiction is "...passionate...vivid...magnetic...uncompromising..". (Washington Post). Now, the author of God's Fires returns with a new novel as devastating and intense as war itself... "One seriously fine talent...determined to break the bounds of speculative fiction" -- New York Daily News World War I, Flanders, Northern France: the British trenches grow wet and foul. For Travis Lee Stanhope, a Texan sharpshooter serving in an English unit, the war is not hell, but home. Each night he ventures into No Man's Land between his comrades and the German trenches, and waits. At dawn, he begins the methodical killing of enemy troops. Then he returns. His numbers are exemplary. But Travis Lee is changing. His senses are ravaged by the unending scream of shells overhead. His mind numbed by too many rations of rum. His soul bled dry by the constant death all around him. But in his dreams, something still lives. He sees a world like the war, where living is the same as walking dead. But the people there are his comrades killed in action. Sometimes they are stranded with him on the battlefield. Sometimes they lie in glass-covered graves in an Eden-like cemetery. He tries to ease their pain. But no one can ease his pain. And it will take more than death, and more than dreams, to make Travis Lee realize that he may have a function in this war beyond killing his enemies.

Patricia Anthony is the highly acclaimed author of Cold Allies (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Brother Termite (motion picture option to James Cameron), Conscience of the Beagle, Happy Policeman, and Cradle of Splendor. She lives in Texas.