Declare

Review ''Dazzling. . . A tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly. -- Dean Koontz ''[Powers] orchestrates reality and fantasy so artfully that the reader is not allowed a moment's doubt throughout this tall tale.'' --New Yorker''Highly ingenious. . . . No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game.'' -- San Francisco Chronicle ''DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Cal, and possibly his best to date.'' --Locus Magazine''Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare's occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined.'' -- William Gibson ''There's never been a novel quite like Declare -- one of the protean Powers's most absorbing and rewarding creations.'' --Kirkus Starred Review Product Description In his eleventh novel, Tim Powers takes his unique brand of speculative fiction into uncharted territory, instilling the old-fashioned espionage novel with a healthy dose of the supernatural. 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, a coded message draws Professor Andrew Hale back into Her Majesty's Secret Service. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, including ex-British counterespionage chief and Soviet mole Kim Philby, and a beautiful former Spanish Civil War soldier-turned-intelligence operative, Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga. Soon Hale will be forced to confront again the nightmare that 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, Ceniza-Bendiga, and Philby to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous biblical Ark. About the Author TIM POWERS is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Last Call, On Stranger Tides and Three Days to Never. He has received the Philip K. Dick, World Fantasy, and Locus awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.