Fiction: The Volition Directive

Sample: The Volition Directive

A time travel novel built around generations of a single family, The Volition Directive traverses genres, the 20th century and beyond.

A narrative puzzle partly inspired by David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas, The Volition Directive is told through four parallel narratives which increasingly interact and ultimately converge:

• a man from another time and place trapped in the trenches in France in World War One;
• his daughter, a spy infiltrating Nazi Germany in World War Two with an uncanny foresight;
• her grandson, a Nobel Prize winning scientist who nevertheless gets roped into the toxic family business;
• a time travel mission embarking from 2032, intending to go reach 1912, but going instead to a distant future.

The pace accelerates as the mystery resolves, and we come to realize that all of these characters are parts of a single, interconnected family, which in a Moebius Strip perpetuates its destiny like a snake eating its own tail. The Volition Directive is a novel about the collision of loyalty and morality within a family, and the struggle to break away from expectations.