Lavie Tidhar sold An Occupation of Angels to Apex Publishing. The short novel is scheduled to be published in February 2010, and Apex, will start accepting pre-orders this winter.
According to Publisher Jason B. Sizemore, An Occupation of Angels “exemplifies Tidhar’s skills blending dark fantasy and religious mythology. Shadow Executive Killarney is a woman who kills angels for a living. After killing Raphael, Archangels start dying around her as well. Wherever she goes, they are murdered. While she knows she is not the one performing these murders, she (and every other shadow organization) knows that they are somehow connected to her. This mystery will take her all over the world and into the icy desert of Siberia where an experiment gone wrong will end in a confrontation of angels, Nazis, and God.”
We reviewed Tidhar’s 2007 collection Hebrew Punk (also published by Apex) in this article.