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Loading... Declare (original 2000; edition 2001)by Tim Powers (Author)
Work InformationDeclare by Tim Powers (2000)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. A spy novel/secret history of the 20th century, with the cold war, and the Great Game recast as a contest to either control or destroy actual, literal djinn. Third time reread. It continues to work really well for me. ( ) Much like The Mystery Play (which I also recently read), I have been trying to find a copy of Declare in paperback for the longest time, after I checked it out of the public library 4 or 5 times in high school. I discovered while at Green Apple Books that William Morrow/HarperCollins has recently reprinted a whole slew of Powers's books, so now none of you have any excuse for not reading these. While I knocked Last Call down a peg when I reread it, I'm keeping Declare at five stars. Powers really sells the horror in this one in a way that I don't think he really has since On Stranger Tides, and (as always) the supernatural elements have a pleasing logic to them. My one complaint is that on rereading this, there's not a whole lot of character development to be found here (Powers kind of cheats this with some of the supernatural parts of the book, but my point still stands). If you have ever enjoyed a fantasy, horror, or spy novel, you should really give Declare a go. no reviews | add a review
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As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale finds himself caught up in a secret, even more ruthless war. Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from post-war Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hale's desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft -- and inexorably drives Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark. No library descriptions found. |
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