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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 25th ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION LITERATURE
Product Description
A transcendent thriller that re-writes the espionage fiction rule book as it reveals the terrible secret at the heart of the Cold War: Operation Declare.
As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale found himself caught up in a secret war that culminated in a night of terror, death and failure on the icy slopes of Mount Ararat in 1948. Fifteen years later, with the Cold War at its height, a mysterious phone-call offers him a chance to return to the mountain. Returning means confronting the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-name Declare. Hale has to return - he knows what is at stake. But he also knows that he can't trust anyone and that his survival will depend on more than just his hard-won tradecraft ...
From the corridors of Whitehall to the trackless wastes of the Arabian desert, from the ruins of post-war Berlin to the KGB torture chambers of Cold War Moscow, Hale, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, enigmatic traitor to the British cause, are inexorably driven towards a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.
Awards
Winner of the World Fantasy Award and the International Horror Guild Award. Shorlisted for the Locus and the Nebula awards.
About the Author
Tim Powers is the author of several critically acclaimed works of speculative fiction, including The Stress of Her Regards, Three Days to Never and The Anubis Gates. He is a recipient of the Philip K. Dick and Locus Awards as well as being a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award. He lives in California.
Industry Reviews
'Tim Powers is a brilliant writer. Declare's occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly executed' - William Gibson 'Dazzling - a tour de force, a brillant blend of John Le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly, packed with historical fact, dazzling flights of imagination, and wonderful suspense' - Dean Koontz '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 Mieville
