The Vengeance of Rome

By: Michael Moorcock

Write A Review

Hardcover | 5 January 2006

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

"Byzantium Endures", the first volume of Michael Moorcock's legendary "Pyat Quartet", appeared in 1981. "The Laughter of Carthage" (1984) and "Jerusalem Commands" (1992) followed. Now the quartet is complete. Pyat keeps his appointment with the age's worst nightmare. Born in Ukraine on the first day of the century, a Jewish anti-Semite, Pyat careered through three decades like a runaway train. Bisexual, cocaine-loving engineer/inventor/spy, he enthusiastically embraces Fascism. Hero-worshipping Mussolini, he enters the dictator's circle, enjoys a close friendship with Mussolini's wife and is sent by the Duce on a secret mission to Munich, becoming intimate with Ernst Rohm, the homosexual Stormtrooper leader. His crucial role in the Nazi Party's struggle for power has him performing perverted sex acts with 'Alf', as the Fuhrer's friends call him. Pyat's extraordinary luck leaves him after he witnesses Hitler's massacre of Rohm and the SA. At last he is swallowed up in Dachau concentration camp. Thirty years later, having survived the Spanish civil war, he is living in Portobello Road and telling his tale to a writer called Moorcock.

Industry Reviews

"Gusto is not a word often applied to the contemporary English novel, but it is precisely the word to describe the extraordinary Michael Moorcock... The writing gallops along...enthralling - it makes Ian Fleming's Bond novels look like sober pieces of dull reportage..." -- Alan Massie Scotsman 20060107 "There will be no more challenging novel published in 2006." -- Brian Morton Sunday Herald 20060108 "What is extraordinary about Moorcock's fiction is the largeness of the design. Moorcock has the bravura of the nineteenth-century novelist; he takes risks, he uses fiction as if it were a divining rod for the age's most significant concerns." -- Peter Ackroyd "Moorcock can be funny, his irony is blissful, but the effect of his writing is grim. He shares one remarkable quality with such disparate giants as Trollope and Proust: when we read him we want more and have no appetite, at least for a while, for anyone else's fiction. He casts a heady, enslaving spell." -- Ruth Rendell

Shipping

	Standard Shipping	Express Shipping
Metro postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Regional postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95
Rural postcodes:	$9.99	$14.95

Orders over $89.00 qualify for free shipping.

How to return your order

At Booktopia, we offer hassle-free returns in accordance with our returns policy. If you wish to return an item, please get in touch with Booktopia Customer Care.

Additional postage charges may be applicable.