The Weight Of Shadows

A Novel of War, Espionage, and Memory

A haunting World War II espionage novel about the secrets that survive the silence.

Lisbon, 1940. A city of exiles, double agents, and voices that refuse to die.
British intelligence officer Tom Hale is recalled to the neutral port after a rogue transmission echoes the cadence of his brother’s last signal—sent from a plane that never came home.

Ordered to shut down the broadcast, Tom discovers a web of radio operators, smugglers, and coded messages pulsing through the city’s narrow streets. Each frequency seems to carry a ghost—one that sounds too much like family.

Across the Channel, Daniel Hale has survived the impossible. Hidden among the French resistance, he transmits weather reports to Allied command under the same call pattern his brother once taught him. To both men, the other is already a memory—until the signal returns.

As London tightens its control, Lisbon becomes a city of unfinished transmissions: love disguised as code, truth buried in noise, and faith measured in static.
To save his brother, Tom must risk betraying his country.
To stay alive, Daniel must believe that someone, somewhere, is still listening.

From William Ferrier Jr., author of The Weight of Names, comes a literary spy novel of uncommon restraint and resonance—where every message carries both a lie and a confession.

Fans of All the Light We Cannot See, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Nightingale will be captivated by this story of brothers divided by duty and united by signal.

The Weight of Shadows: A Novel of War, Espionage, and Memory
A story of code, conscience, and the invisible thread between those who refuse to be forgotten.

If heard—hold.