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Declare

Tim Powers author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Atlantic Books

Published:1st Jun '10

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A mesmerising, award-winning, daringly imaginative, multi-levelled thriller for fans of John le Carre or Neal Stephenson, Declare reveals the secret history of the twentieth century

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2011 ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD

An ultra-secret MI6 codename. A deadly game of deception and intrigue. Dark forces from the depths of history. The terrible secret at the heart of the cold war.

Operation: DECLARE

London, 1963. A cryptic phone call forces ex-MI6 agent Andrew Hale to confront the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: an ultra-secret wartime operation, codenamed Declare.

Operation Declare took Hale from Nazi-occupied Paris to the ruins of post-war Berlin and the trackless wastes of the Arabian desert, culminating in a night of betrayal and mind-shattering terror on the glacial slopes of Mount Ararat.

Now, with the Cold War at its height, his superiors want him to return to the mountain and face the dark secret entombed within its icy summit. Hale has no choice but to comply, for Declare is the key to a conflict far deeper, far colder, than the Cold War itself.

Dazzling... a tour de force, a brillant blend of John Le Carré spy fiction with the otherworldly, packed with historical fact, dazzling flights of imagination, and wonderful suspense -- Dean Koontz
Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare's occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly executed. -- William Gibson
Philip K. Dick felt that one day Tim Powers would be one of our greatest fantasy writers. Phil was right. -- Roger Zelazny
If you've ever woken half way through a fabulous dream and desperately wanted to know what would have happened next: relax. Those unfinished stories go to Tim Powers, and he's good enough to write them down for all of us -- Nick Harkaway
A brilliant, strange crossbreed of the spy thriller and the supernatural. -- China Miéville

  • Short-listed for ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2011 (UK)

ISBN: 9781848874039

Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 41mm

Weight: 535g

576 pages

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