We’ve mentioned it a number of times on the blog, but we are finally able to share with you the cover for Lavie Tidhar‘s excellent THE VIOLENT CENTURY!

The novel, which has already been receiving some excellent advanced praise, is due to be published in October 2013 by Hodder Books. Here’s the synopsis:

They’d never meant to be heroes.

For seventy years they guarded the British Empire. Oblivion and Fogg, inseparable friends, bound together by a shared fate. Until one night in Berlin, in the aftermath of the Second World War, and a secret that tore them apart.

But there must always be an account… and the past has a habit of catching up to the present.

Now, recalled to the Retirement Bureau from which no one can retire, Fogg and Oblivion must face up to a past of terrible war and unacknowledged heroism – a life of dusty corridors and secret rooms, of furtive meetings and blood-stained fields – to answer one last, impossible question:

What makes a hero?