by Bill Simmons
First published 2013
A young man says goodbye to his wife and boards an old plane with his friends for what should be a routine flight. Instead, their aircraft passes through a temporal anomaly that hurls them seventy years into the past. They land in the middle of the Normandy invasion during World War II. The protagonist watches his friends die in the chaos of D-Day. He transforms from civilian to soldier, learning to fight and survive in a war he never signed up for. The cause of this time fold remains mysterious. Scientists experimenting with particle beams in underground tunnels may have torn holes in time itself. Massive earthquakes and tsunamis could have shifted Earth off its axis. The phenomenon might connect to places like the Bermuda Triangle where planes and ships vanish without explanation. The protagonist must navigate both the brutality of war and the impossibility of his situation.
Genres: historical-fiction, adventure, action, alternate-history
Vibes: fast-paced, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: fish-out-of-water, transformation
Setting: Normandy, Bermuda Triangle
Period: World War II, Temporal Anomaly
252 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: death, violence