RAGNARSSON WRITES
Ripping tales of adventure, magic and skullduggery in a Britain that never was.
Piety
Stylish, cold war urban fantasy with devious plots, rampaging monsters and a strong (and stabby) female lead.
Releasing 20/12/2024
Kennedy is in the white house and the Berlin wall has just gone up, but even in the face of nuclear war the threat of older, darker powers still looms large. In Britain, a certain nudge-nudge agency fights for Queen and country against the occult, the uncanny and the bloody strange, keeping down the forces of evil in this sceptred isle.
Sent alone on a thankless errand to tackle infernal agriculture in the Shetlands, junior investigator William Fitzwilliam is thrust into the midst of a much larger plot, already under top secret investigation by the notorious Agent Magnus. An investigation so secret that Magnus didn’t even tell the agency about it.
With the locals under mind control, cultists starting gun fights along the docks and the baleful Magnus saying absolutely nothing, Fitz discovers a lot more than he or the agency bargained for. He must untangle the web of deceit to find out why he is really here, and the only person he can trust is a certain young woman called Piety. Enigmatic, beautiful and with a particular passion for stabbing the Queen’s enemies, she just so happens to be his ex-girlfriend and is also working for Magnus.
About the author
Sam is a novelist in his mid thirties from southeast England, where he lives with his Swedish wife and composes his particular brand of sorcery and cigarettes modern fantasy.
He is inspired by writers like Dan Abnett and Kim Newman who kept writing ripsnorting adventures even when that was rather out of fashion. He’s hugely influenced by movies and TV shows like the early era of James Bond, The IPCRESS File and The Avengers, and by games like the criminally underrated No-one Lives Forever.
He has been writing on and off for a decade, getting no-where with traditional publishers and finally decided to do it himself. If you're lucky he'll put up some of his old books that publishers wouldn't touch.
