UPDATE: June 4, 2008. NICK OF TIME will debut on the New York Times Children's Chapter Book Bestseller list at #4.Ted Bell will debut his first novel for younger readers, NICK OF TIME, on May 13th, 2008. This will be his first book for St. Martin's, and will be a hardcover edition, beautifully illustrated by Russ Kramer, whose work has been compared to the NC Wyeth illustrations for TREASURE ISLAND.
The novel tells the tale of a young boy and his sister, living in England in the summer of 1939. Nazi U-boats are circling their small island home preparatory to invasion. The two children become spies, and eventually heroes, in their efforts to stave off the Germans. A second plotline involves time travel with young Nick returning to the year 1805 to defeat a dastardly conspiracy by the French and Spanish to ambush Admiral Lord Nelson's fleet en route to Trafalgar. The book was optioned by Paramount Pictures and is Ted's first foray into the world of young adult fiction.
Ted's new Alex Hawke spy thriller, TSAR, will be published by Simon & Schuster on September 23rd, 2008.
