Ghost Talkers a new novel from beloved fantasy author Mary Robinette
Kowal featuring the mysterious spirit corps and their heroic work in
World War I.
Ginger Stuyvesant, an American heiress living in London during World War
I, is engaged to Captain Benjamin Hartshorne, an intelligence officer.
Ginger is a medium for the Spirit Corps, a special Spiritualist force.
Each soldier heading for the front is conditioned to report to the
mediums of the Spirit Corps when they die so the corps can pass instant
information about troop movements to military intelligence.
Ginger and her fellow mediums contribute a great deal to the war
efforts, so long as they pass the information through appropriate
channels. While Ben is away at the front, Ginger discovers the presence
of a traitor. Without the presence of her fiancé to validate her
findings, the top brass thinks she's just imagining things. Even worse,
it is clear that the Spirit Corps is now being directly targeted by the
German war effort. Left to her own devices, Ginger has to find out how
the Germans are targeting the Spirit Corps and stop them. This is a
difficult and dangerous task for a woman of that era, but this time both
the spirit and the flesh are willing....
