Declare, Tim Powers
Declare, Tim Powers
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Declare

Author: Tim Powers

Narrator: Simon Prebble

Unabridged: 21 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/22/2010


Synopsis

In his eleventh novel, Tim Powers takes his unique brand of speculative fiction into uncharted territory, instilling the oldfashioned espionage novel with a healthy dose of the supernatural. As a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazioccupied 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 Majestys Secret Service. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, including exBritish counterespionage chief and Soviet mole Kim Philby, and a beautiful former Spanish Civil War soldierturnedintelligence operative, Elena Teresa CenizaBendiga. Soon Hale will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation codenamed Declare. From the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian Desert, from postwar Berlin to the streets of Cold War Moscow, Hales desperate quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraftand inexorably drives Hale, CenizaBendiga, 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 Tim Powers

Tim Powers is the author of over a dozen novels, including The Anubis Gates, Declare, and Three Days to Never. He has received the Locus, World Fantasy, and Philip K. Dick awards. He lives in San Bernardino, California.


Reviews

Where to begin? I should take a day off from work to write this one, but I can't. Just days ago I assumed I was going to give this book 3 stars. That reflected disappointment. The first couple hundred pages are... well, I guess the word is "slow". Many of the scenes held my interest but they did not......more

Goodreads review by Ian

Five stars: I want to have this book's babies. If Tim Powers had taken a sabbatical into my subconscious, living like Jane Goodall among the phantoms of my nightly dream life, he couldn't have written a book more perfectly suited for me. Part of me wants to eat his brain and thereby absorb his power......more

Goodreads review by Apatt

“The concealed war that, ironically, facilitated its own concealment simply by being beyond the capacity of most people to believe.” Tim Powers’ Declare is about this “concealed war” where Russia, the UK, Germany and France engage in using supernatural weapons in additional to conventional ones durin......more