The World Behind Us: A Novella

A futuristic crime thriller set in the past.

Casablanca remade by Tarantino - with the occasional disturbance in the space/time continuum.

Ray Ranglin thought he was done with The Corporation, but it turns out they weren’t done with him. So when his old boss makes him an offer he can’t refuse, Ranglin finds himself in Paris for the art heist of the century.

Last century, that is.

This is the Paris of smoky jazz clubs and black market politics, a city where people move in the shadows of Nazi occupation. Django Reinhardt and Hermann Göring make brief appearances.

This is the story of time-travelling thieves and assassins who have quietly shaped the course of history, plus the CIA agents hot on their trail. This is . . .The World Behind Us.

A 5-star review on Readers’ Favorite . . . a splendid meld of crime and time travel . . . written with a good dose of humor . . .

“Thomas Trang is a great storyteller and did his research well to include relevant elements of the setting. I enjoyed the way he weaves the soul and heart of Paris during the period of WWII into the narrative, giving readers powerful and vivid images of places as well as the culture.”