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Tim Lees

Tim Lees is a British writer living in Chicago, author of the “Field Ops” books for HarperVoyager (The God Hunter, Devil in the Wires and Steal the Lightning), the much-praised historical fantasy, Frankenstein’s Prescription (Brooligan Press), and numerous short stories in Interzone, Black Static, Ellen Datlow’s Best Horror of the Year, and elsewhere. When not writing, he’s held a variety of jobs, including film extra, conference organiser, lizard-bottler in a museum, and worker in a psychiatric hospital.

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Tim Lees

He’s pumped. Forty press-ups, right before the camera rolls. Body-shirt and bulging arms, slicked-back hair, unblinking eyes — but out of shot, he’s quivering with nerves, pacing, smoking, trying out his lines a dozen different ways. And that swagger he puts up on screen? It’s not even skin deep. “I’m Kurt Carter. I’m here to […]