Soldiers & Spies stories

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Barracks, battlefields and people travelling under names that are not their own. A man waiting for a deployment that could come in weeks or days, who wants somebody to come home to; a physician arrested for treason before the bandage has set; a rumour in a mud-bound Union camp that the regiment moves tomorrow; a traveller calling himself Lovel, stranded by a missed coach beside a talkative antiquary; a mechanic certain speed is the coming trade.

TeenWar and PeaceYou are Pierre Bezukhov, an illegitimate heir made by a portfolio into the largest fortune in Russia.Ongoing · 150 chapters · ~7 hr 40 min · About 7 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureRomance of the Three KingdomsYou are Liu Bei, imperial blood, no soldiers, swearing brotherhood under peach blossom with a farmer and a fugitive.Ongoing · 120 chapters · ~5 hr 40 min · About 5 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWaverleyYou play Captain Edward Waverley, a young dragoon whose leave in the Highlands is swallowed by the Jacobite rising of 1745.Ongoing · 70 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Three MusketeersYou play d'Artagnan, a Gascon arriving in Paris on a yellow horse with your father's letter to Treville.Ongoing · 68 chapters · ~2 hr 40 min · About 2 hr 40 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Scottish ChiefsYou are William Wallace, riding home from Douglas Castle with an iron box under your plaid, sworn not to open it until Scotland is free.Ongoing · 60 chapters · ~2 hr 45 min · About 2 hr 45 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureQuo VadisYou are Marcus Vinicius, a tribune just back from the eastern legions, and Lygia, a royal hostage, is neither slave nor daughter in Rome's law.Ongoing · 48 chapters · ~2 hr · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official

TeenTom Cringle's LogYou play Tom Cringle, thirteen, joining HMS Breeze at Portsmouth with four days of farewell behind you.Ongoing · 48 chapters · ~2 hr 25 min · About 2 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureOff DutyYou match with Roman Adler, a former marine who left the service a few months back but never lost the discipline; he still hits the gym four or five times a week for a steady mind as much as a strong body.Complete · 47 chapters · ~2 hr 45 min · About 2 hr 45 min totalBy Delia Ashton

MatureThe Golden DogYou play Amelie, up from Tilly with your aunt while Quebec hauls earth at sunrise.Ongoing · 46 chapters · ~2 hr · About 2 hr published so farBy netfable official

18+Safe LandingComplete · 45 chapters · ~3 hr 45 min · About 3 hr 45 min totalBy Sasha Bailey

MatureWeapons HotYou match with Avery, a combat medic whose very first message is an easy, confident line about his need for speed.Complete · 44 chapters · ~2 hr 35 min · About 2 hr 35 min totalBy Lara Sutton

TeenQuentin DurwardYou are Quentin Durward, a Scottish cadet seeking fortune in France, and the traveller who watched you swim his flooded ford is the King.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 20 min · About 2 hr 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenVittoriaYou are Carlo Ammiani, a young noble of Milan, sworn to a rising fixed for the night a soprano of nineteen sings at La Scala.Ongoing · 40 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThaddeus of WarsawYou are Thaddeus Sobieski, nineteen, your father's name sealed in a packet your mother hands you, when Warsaw rises and falls around you.Ongoing · 36 chapters · ~2 hr 5 min · About 2 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe White CompanyYou play John of Hordle, a novice expelled from Beaulieu into the wars.Ongoing · 36 chapters · ~1 hr 50 min · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Two AdmiralsYou are young Wychecombe, gathering cliffside flowers for Mildred Dutton while her father scans the fog from the signal station for an unidentified fleet.Ongoing · 34 chapters · ~1 hr 50 min · About 1 hr 50 min published so farBy netfable official

18+Need to KnowComplete · 32 chapters · ~3 hr 15 min · About 3 hr 15 min totalBy Owen Delaney

MatureCaptain BloodYou are Dr Peter Blood, a former soldier turned physician who rides out to treat a wounded rebel and is arrested for treason before the bandage sets.Ongoing · 30 chapters · ~1 hr 5 min · About 1 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCome Home SafeHe is waiting for deployment, which could be weeks or could be days, and says what he wants is a rock — somebody to come home to.Complete · 29 chapters · ~1 hr 15 min · About 1 hr 15 min totalBy Isla Carter

TeenOne of the Six HundredA newly commissioned cavalry officer must learn the mess, the saddle and his own limits as war with Russia approaches.Ongoing · 28 chapters · ~1 hr 25 min · About 1 hr 25 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Red Badge of CourageA rumour reaches a mud-bound Union camp at dawn: the regiment moves tomorrow, and this time the word is certain.Ongoing · 24 chapters · ~55 min · About 55 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureMr StandfastYou are Richard Hannay, disguised as the pacifist Cornelius Brand and sent into a Cotswolds house of pacifists to find one hidden German agent.Ongoing · 22 chapters · ~59 min · About 59 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe RefugeesYou are Amory, a soldier of the Blue Guard visiting your Huguenot cousins in Paris the night dragoons are ordered to billet in their house over their faith.Ongoing · 22 chapters · ~1 hr 5 min · About 1 hr 5 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenAt AgincourtYou are Guy Aylmer, sixteen, castellan's son from Summerley, companion to young Henry in Sir Eustace de Villeroy's family.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenBlue LightsYou are Miles Milton, nineteen, storming out of your father's house because he refuses you the army.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenBy England's AidYou are Geoffrey Vickars, a Hedingham rector's son, and in 1587 you and your brother Lionel sail to London aboard John Lirriper's ketch.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenBy Pike and DykeYou are Ned Martin, sixteen, son of the Good Venture's master and a Dutch mother whose kin sit watched inside Amsterdam.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCaptain Bayley's HeirYou are Harry Holl, fifteen, in a wheeled chair at your mother's Westminster wash-tub, watching grown men swarm the school's boys.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenExtract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to HeavenA scorched sea captain arrives in heaven on a comet, still determined to protest his last race.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenCousin MaryYou are Mary Burnet, orphaned cousin at Horton Hall, the answer to every errand the Prescotts can invent, loved and used in the same breath.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenDraw Swords!You are Richard Darrell, newly posted to the Sixth Horse Artillery at Vallumbagh.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureGreenmantleYou are Richard Hannay, still recovering from Loos, when Sir Walter Bullivant hands you a dead agent's last clues: a name, Greenmantle, and a plot moving through the East no ordinary agent could follow.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenIn the Irish BrigadeYou are Desmond Kennedy, a cornet of the Irish Brigade, raised by a guardian who never named the father who vanished in a failed rising.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenJessYou are the friend at Captain John Niel's stirrup, riding out to inspect a third share of Silas Croft's ostrich farm.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenMicah ClarkeYou are Micah Clarke, fishing off the Isle of Wight when a Dutch brig fires on a drowning man; you and Reuben haul him aboard.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenMiddy and EnsignYou are Bob Roberts, midshipman aboard HMS Startler, where your deliberate stare goads Ensign Tom Long into a wrong order at drill.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~23 min · About 23 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureMidwinterYou are Captain Alastair Maclean, riding south through rain-soaked England hostile to your prince, guided by a man who answers only to Midwinter and names no side.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenRobinson CrusoeYour father shuts the chamber door in York to settle your hunger for voyages.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenSandra BelloniYou are the soldier son of the Poles of Brookfield, where your sisters follow a voice into the fir wood and find Emilia Belloni and her harp.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Adventures of Captain HornYou are Captain Philip Horn, master of the schooner Castor, dismasted by a tornado off Peru with every chart gone.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Captain of the GuardA traveller carries two private letters into wartime France and finds the road to Paris unsafe.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Captain's Toll-GateYou are Olive Asher, summering with your uncle Captain John Asher, collector of seven cents a horse on the Glenford pike.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Cat of BubastesYou are Amuba, heir of the Rebu, when Egypt's army comes and your father makes his stand behind the marsh.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe CopperheadAbner Beech raises you alongside his son Jeff on a Northern farm where his defense of slavery and the South has turned neighbors, church, and even the local cheese factory against the household.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Cornet of HorseYou are Rupert Holliday, fifteen, and the cornetcy in Marlborough's horse is already bought against your mother's fear.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Dash for KhartoumYou are John Humphreys, an Agra merchant whose wife Jane will not say which of the two infants she nursed is your son.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Daughter of a SoldierYou are Maureen O'Brien, daughter of a sergeant who died going back for a comrade, living on charity in your uncle Patrick's rectory.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Good SoldierTwo couples meet on a spa terrace at Nauheim.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~19 min · About 19 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe House of the WolfingsYou play the war-leader of the Wolfings, mustering your kindred the night a burnt, blood-marked arrow calls every house of the Mark against an army from the south.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Lion of the NorthYou are Malcolm Graheme, sixteen, and the strangers you rescue at a flooded Nithsdale ford are recruiting Scots for the Lion of the North.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Master of BallantraeYou are Henry Durie, the younger, dependable brother, as news that Prince Charles has landed splits your family at Durrisdeer: someone must ride for the rising, someone must stay and save the mortgaged estate.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Queen's ScarletYou are Richard Frayne, and the tailor Simpson brings three blue bills your cousin Mark cannot pay.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Seats of the MightyAn officer believed dead enters besieged Quebec under a borrowed name and an ordinary trade.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe Secret AgentYou, Adolf Verloc, keep a dim Soho shop as cover for something quieter: eleven years of paid reports to a foreign embassy, a living your wife Winnie has learned not to question.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Tiger of MysoreYou are Dick Holland, fifteen, sailing with your mother to find the ship's captain father who vanished into Tippoo's prisons six years ago.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~29 min · About 29 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Trumpet-MajorYou are Anne Garland, mending a rug at Overcombe Mill when soldiers crest the down above your window, a whole camp arriving to a village that never agreed to want them.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~21 min · About 21 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe UnderdogsPalomo barks three times toward the lower trail, and two federal soldiers kick in the door of a mountain hut wanting supper.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~20 min · About 20 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureThe War in the AirYou play Bert Smallways, a bicycle mechanic in Bun Hill certain speed is the coming trade.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~22 min · About 22 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Young CarthaginianYou are Malchus, son of the Carthaginian officer Hamilcar, and your first test is a lion hunt in the Libyan night.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenThe Young CastellanYou are Roy Royland, heir of Royland Castle, polishing rusted armour with old Ben Martlet while your father Sir Granby fights for the King.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~26 min · About 26 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenTrue to the Old FlagYou are Harold Wilson, eighteen, at your cousin's Lake Huron farm, when Jack Pearson paddles in with word that War Eagle's band has struck.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

MatureUncle BernacYou play Louis de Laval, put ashore alone on the French coast to answer your exiled family's only ally: an uncle promising restored standing under Napoleon, and an unsigned line warning you not to come.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenVia CrucisYou are Lady Goda of Stoke Regis, waiting by the moat in 1145 for a husband your ally has twice tried to kill.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWith Clive in IndiaYou are Charlie Marryat, a Yarmouth widow's son shipped at sixteen to a Company writership in Madras.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWith Frederick the GreatYou are Fergus Drummond, a Culloden orphan whose mother trained you for her cousin, Marshal Keith of Prussia.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWith Kitchener in the SoudanYou are Gregory Hartley, disinherited for marrying a governess and clerking in Alexandria as Hilliard because your Annie's lungs need the sun.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~24 min · About 24 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWith Lee in VirginiaYou are Vincent Wingfield of the Orangery, where you stop the overseer Pearson's whip over Dan and tame Wildfire by patience instead of fear.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~25 min · About 25 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWon by the SwordYou are Hector Campbell, a dead Scottish officer's son, and the plain rider you correct outside Paris is Viscount Turenne himself.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~27 min · About 27 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWoodstockYou are Joseph Tomkins, and the commissioners' order you carry to Woodstock turns Sir Henry Lee out of his own lodge.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~30 min · About 30 min published so farBy netfable official

TeenWulf the SaxonYou are Wulf of Steyning, Earl Harold's young ward, exiled from Westminster after colliding with the Norman page Walter Fitz-Urse.Ongoing · 6 chapters · ~28 min · About 28 min published so farBy netfable official

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