The Next Book: Let's Take a Trip Back In Time

A lot of people have been asking me what the next book is going to be about, so I'm going to give you a little inkling. I don't have a title for it yet, so right now it's just "the next book."

So here's a blurb to give you an idea where we're going next. There's a lot more to the story, of course, so take this as the start of a ride on another roller-coaster…

The date is June 6, 2004. The place is southern England, at a former Royal Air Force base. Amidst the celebration of the 60th Anniversary of D-Day, a group of men board a C-47 transport aircraft. Playing the role of American paratroopers, they're looking forward to reenacting the historic airborne assault before thousands of eager onlookers, parachuting into the fields not far from Sainte-Mère-Église, just as their grandfathers and great-grandfathers did sixty years before.

All is as it should be, except for an enigmatic elderly woman in black, who begs their leader to wear a charm around his neck and whispers, "You must save them."

As the plane crosses the English Channel, the clear skies turn gray. Enfolded in an eerie storm, gray turns to black as the plane is shaken in the turbulence. Flashes light up the sky beyond the plane's windows, accompanied by thunderous booms that drown out the roar of the straining engines.

What the men see and hear isn't lightning, but the detonation of antiaircraft artillery. Where there should be daylight and clear skies, there is a moonlit night filled with other aircraft, some of them wreathed in flames, silhouetted by thousands of exploding antiaircraft shells and bright streams of tracers.

The plane is hit, the pilots killed. Burning and out of control, the C-47 plunges toward the ground, leaving the men on board no option but to leap into the terrifying darkness.

But reaching the ground alive is the least of their worries. For this is June 6, 1944. It's D-Day, and they're jumping straight into Hell…

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