It’s 1939 and Europe is on the brink of the Second World War. Raybould Marsh, of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, uncovers evidence of a covert German laboratory and a mysterious experiment involving a small group of test subjects – young men and women with strange and frightening abilities. Klaus, who can walk through walls, and his sister, Gretel, who can see the future, are two of these test subjects. Orphaned by World War I, they’ve been raised in a lab and trained by a Nazi scientist to use their considerable powers against Germany’s enemies. As war begins, Marsh and his colleagues, including Britain’s most formidable warlocks, will fight against the siblings and their Nazi handlers. This fantastical reimagining of the Second World War is the first book of the Milkweed Triptych trilogy.

posted Apr 5, 2012 at 2:36PM

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