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THE NORWEGIAN INCIDENT: A Novel of Hidden History and Resistance in World War II
November 1942. A failed British commando raid. A buried secret. And two sisters who risked everything to expose the truth.
When telegraph operator Astrid Halversen intercepts a coded German transmission in Nazi-occupied Norway, she faces an impossible burn the evidence and stay safe, or investigate and risk her life. Her brother Lars has just died in Operation Freshman—the disastrous glider mission that killed all thirty-four British commandos attempting to sabotage the Vemork heavy water plant.
Or so the official story claims.
But the coordinates Astrid decoded tell a different story. Someone survived. A British operative is hiding in the frozen mountains of Hardangervidda, carrying photographs that could prove whether Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program is real—or an elaborate bluff.
Astrid isn't the only Halversen keeping secrets.
Her sixteen-year-old sister Ingrid has been working for the resistance for months, using her job as a cleaning girl at Vemork to unlock doors and steal documents. Together, the sisters become part of a desperate intelligence operation to extract the British spy before German search teams find him.
But the Gestapo is watching. The network is compromised. And the photographs the operative died capturing show a truth so inconvenient that Allied governments will suppress it for fifty years.
Based on the real Operations Freshman and Gunnerside, The Norwegian Incident weaves documented history with gripping fiction to reveal the untold story of ordinary people who gathered extraordinary intelligence—and the governments that buried it.
Perfect for readers who loved The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and Code Name Verity.
When telegraph operator Astrid Halversen intercepts a coded German transmission in Nazi-occupied Norway, she faces an impossible burn the evidence and stay safe, or investigate and risk her life. Her brother Lars has just died in Operation Freshman—the disastrous glider mission that killed all thirty-four British commandos attempting to sabotage the Vemork heavy water plant.
Or so the official story claims.
But the coordinates Astrid decoded tell a different story. Someone survived. A British operative is hiding in the frozen mountains of Hardangervidda, carrying photographs that could prove whether Nazi Germany's atomic bomb program is real—or an elaborate bluff.
Astrid isn't the only Halversen keeping secrets.
Her sixteen-year-old sister Ingrid has been working for the resistance for months, using her job as a cleaning girl at Vemork to unlock doors and steal documents. Together, the sisters become part of a desperate intelligence operation to extract the British spy before German search teams find him.
But the Gestapo is watching. The network is compromised. And the photographs the operative died capturing show a truth so inconvenient that Allied governments will suppress it for fifty years.
Based on the real Operations Freshman and Gunnerside, The Norwegian Incident weaves documented history with gripping fiction to reveal the untold story of ordinary people who gathered extraordinary intelligence—and the governments that buried it.
Perfect for readers who loved The Nightingale, All the Light We Cannot See, and Code Name Verity.
238 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 4, 2025
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