Heroes creator Tim Kring is to co-write a trilogy of novels chronicling an alternate history of the 20th Century.

US publisher Crown has paid a $3 million advance to Kring and co-writer Dale Peck for The Flag of Orpheus, which is described as "an alternate history thriller about the abuses of power and the moral obligation to resist it." The trilogy revolves around key turning points in the late 20th Century, including the early 1960s drug culture.

The first volume, subtitled Shift, is scheduled for release in late 2009 by Random House in the States and will be accompanied by an alternate reality game.

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