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Operation Dandelion's Shadow
A German naval intelligence officer risks his life to tell Japan that the Reich is preparing a sneak nuclear strike, and a Japanese official becomes the first shield against it.
The Reich Succession Crisis
The death of Martin Bormann sets off a struggle inside the Nazi leadership, changing the fate of Operation Dandelion and of everyone caught between the Pacific and Berlin.
The Grasshopper Lies Heavy's Spread
A banned counterfactual novel travels from hand to hand, shaping how people imagine an Allied victory, until it finally becomes the key to a hidden truth.
The Americana Authenticity Crisis
The market for historic American artifacts is poisoned by forgeries, forcing the antique dealer Robert Childan to seek a radically new kind of object.
The Occupied World's New Order
The social rank of place divides white inhabitants, Japanese rulers, and the conquered peoples of the Pacific States, determining every chance of survival and dignity.
Edfrank Jewelry's Struggle
Two fired craftsmen try to build a new life by making contemporary jewelry, only to meet poverty, distrust, and the reach of the police.
The Fake Admiral Affair
A strange visitor to a San Francisco curio shop exposes the counterfeit art market and sets a chain of suspicion, police action, and blackmail in motion.
The Kasoura Dinner and Wu
An American antique dealer is invited to a Japanese home, where his social failure and the strange power of a new piece of jewelry lead him to a new understanding of art.
The SD Raid on Nippon Times Building
A Nazi commando team attempts to kidnap Rudolf Wegener from Japanese territory, and Nobusuke Tagomi violently resists.
Wyndam-Matson's Counterfeit Empire
The forger behind the fake antiques try to control the flow of money and fear, while his power is quietly undermined by the people he exploits.
Robert Childan's Conversion
A humiliated dealer in historical Americana gradually remakes himself as an advocate of new American art, finding a strange dignity in the present.
Nobusuke Tagomi's Moral Injury
A high-ranking Japanese official listens to the horror of the Nazi Empire, kills two men, and loses the ground beneath his own soul.
Frank Frink's Arrest and Release
A Jewish craftsman fleeing his own past is caught by the machinery of the Reich, and then set free by an unexpected act of Japanese mercy.
Juliana Frink's Journey
A drifting judo teacher travels from the Rockies to Cheyenne, escaping a murderer and discovering that a banned book holds the secret of her own world.
Rudolf Wegener's Return
A German spy crosses the Pacific with a dangerous truth, and after delivering it he deliberately chooses to return into the heart of the Reich.
Joe Cinnadella's End
A Nazi-trained assassin hides himself in the body of an Italian fascist, but his own brutality leads to his death at the hands of the woman he needs.
Hawthorne Abendsen's Truth
The author of the banned counterfactual novel is confronted by a stranger who tells him that his fiction is the only truth.
Dandelion and the Pacific Powder Keg
The threat of a Nazi nuclear attack on Japan is the central geopolitical conflict, pulling individuals as small as a Trade Mission official onto a world stage.
The Nazi Internal War
The SD, the Abwehr, and the factions around Goebbels and Heydrich fight each other even while the Reich menaces the world, shaping who lives and who dies.
The Battle Over Authenticity
In a world drowning in counterfeit artifacts, the meaning of the genuine is fought over in shops, laboratories, dinner parties, and parks.
The Conflict of Place in the Pacific
The hierarchy of race and rank shapes every human encounter in occupied America, breeding fear, resentment, and small acts of rebellion.
The Grasshopper Ban and the Reich
The struggle over a banned book tests the limits of Nazi control and becomes a symbol of underground freedom.
Frank and Juliana's Lingering Bond
Even after divorce, Frank Frink cannot stop mourning his former wife, and Juliana carries him with her into her journey.
Juliana and Joe's Lethal Attraction
A woman is drawn to a man who is not what he seems, and her passion becomes a fight for her life.
Childan and Betty's Unspoken Desire
The antique dealer's infatuation with a Japanese woman is tangled with his hunger for place, and it ends in humiliation and growth.
Tagomi and Wegener's Trust
A Japanese bureaucrat and a German spy form a bond of loyalty across an ocean of enmity, grounded in the I Ching and in shared moral horror.
Wyndam-Matson and Rita's Hollow Intimacy
A wealthy forger tries to impress his young mistress with a philosophical trick, only to reveal the emptiness of his world and their relationship.
Historicity and Wu
The novel explores how an object's meaning can come from a false past or from a living presence, and finally shows that true value lies in the present.
Place as Social Metaphysics
The invisible hierarchy of rank is the real religion of the Pacific States, determining who may bow, who may speak, and who may live.
The Tao and Synchronicity
The I Ching weaves through every life, revealing hidden patterns in the moment and asking whether chance can be a form of knowledge.
Counterfactual Worlds and Inner Truth
The novel builds layer upon layer of alternative history until the boundary between truth and fiction collapses.
Conscience in Totalitarian Evil
Individuals caught inside the Nazi and imperial systems must choose between complicity and protest, and their small choices define their humanity.