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Declare

Tim Powers

Kindle Edition | Pages: 612 pages

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Title	:	Declare
Author	:	Tim Powers
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 612 pages
Published	:	October 13th 2009 (first published June 2000)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Thriller. Science Fiction. Spy Thriller. Espionage. Horror

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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, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmarethat 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, the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, and Kim Philby, mysterious traitor to the British cause, to a deadly confrontation on the high glaciers of Mount Ararat, in the very shadow of the fabulous and perilous Ark.

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Original Title:	Declare
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Nebula Award Nominee for Best Novel (2001), Locus Award Nominee for Best Fantasy Novel (2001), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2011), World Fantasy Award for Best Novel (2001), Mythopoeic Fantasy Award Nominee for Adult Literature (2002)

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Ratings: 4.03 From 4834 Users | 406 Reviews

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Eighty percent WWII/Cold War spy thriller, twenty percent creepy fantasy about the supernatural powers moving behind our little conflict.Tim Powers has some sort of impervious force field. His Three Days to Never made me spittingly furious, but I still dug it. This book was unevenly paced with an irritatingly ham-handed romance* and a cast of largely loathsome people, and I still dug it. How does he do that?He just writes cool shit, theres no other way to put it. This book is dense,

This is my second Powers novel and I have to admit I'm hooked. This guy can write!I've never been a true fan of political thrillers or espionage but this one grabbed me from the start. I love that his heroes aren't he men in constant armed or unarmed combat. The lack of gory and graphic violence was pleasing as well. It's not that this lacked action, it didn't. The story just wasn't centered on the actions so much as the interactions of the characters.I'm also in awe as to how Powers manages to

Re-read 7/15/19 as audiobook: This may have moved Declare to the top of my Tim Powers list, thanks to a failed attempt to listen to the audiobook of my favorite, Last Call. (It was boring. Bronson Pinchot made the book boring.) I really have nothing else to add to my previous review of the last time I read it, except that the narrator, Simon Prebble, was excellent. And that this time, I really wanted to slap sense into Elena about her obsession with Communism. Yes, there would have been very

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 seem to be adding up to much and I was getting impatient. I'm sure readers drop this thing left and right before getting to page 300. I can't imagine not wanting to start it though. One of the

I just love what Powers is attempting here - a spy story cum secret history of the cold war where magic, ancient djinns, guardian angels and biblical myth are really the secret drivers of the arms race (very Indiana Jones) - but for me this was a case of the plot of a novel being far more interesting than the writing. I think the problem is that there is just so much information Powers must convey to give the story even a glimmer of credibility (in the suspended disbelief kind of way) that he

Dean Koontz is quoted on the cover of this paperback edition as naming this book a tour de force. That is just about right. The book is a mix of Le Carre (The Perfect Spy springs to mind as well as his earlier Cold War spy thrillers) with quasi-Lovecraftian cosmic horror and it even offers homage to Alistair Maclean towards the end.But it is also very distinctively Tim Powers. Themes of conspiracy, secrecy, ruthlessness and betrayal are all there as we might expect. It gives nothing away to say

Spy novel with fantasy elements. This is a hard one to rate. The first 200 pages were almost too dense and confusing with info on Cold War espionage. It actually took me two attempts to get through it, and that was after I'd done research on the real life spy Kim Philby. You really can't skip the pages, though, because it has alot of info crucial to the plot's later sections. Those who muddle through will be rewarded with a story that gets better and is faster paced after the halfway mark. I