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There are histories beneath history. Tim Powers, one of the most brilliant and audacious talents in contemporary fiction, casts an eerie light on the terrible events that made the twentieth century and reveals what the Cold War was really about.

Declare

After a ten-year hiatus, British academic Andrew Hale is abruptly called back into the Great Game by a terse, cryptic telephone message. Born to "the trade" and recruited at the age of seven by a most secret Secret Service, Hale, in 1963, is forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare.

Two decades earlier, as a young double agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Hale first encountered the incomprehensible rhythms of an invisible world. And from that moment on nothing was ever safe and knowable again. There also, his life became eternally linked with two others' lives that would recurrently intersect his at its most dangerous junctures: his "comrade operative," the fiery and beautiful Communist agent Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga, the object of Hale's undying love, and Kim Philby, the mysterious traitor to the British cause...and perhaps to all humanity. Together they form an unlikely trimuvirate with one shared destiny: Declare.

But the Great Game is greater and far more terrible than Andrew Hale ever imagined. There is another, larger war raging unseen all around him, a cataclysmic secret conflict masked by a "Cold War" of national ideologies. And it is drawing Hale, Elena, and Philby inexorably toward world-shattering consequences on a Biblical mountain in the Middle East...and to a hideous feast of broken minds, destroyed lives, and devoured souls.

The remarkable imagination of Tim Powers has wedded John le Carré with Clive Barker to create something unlike anything previously contained between book covers. A sweeping epic adventure, a love story, a revelation, a nightmare, it is our past and our world as something other...Declare!

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This supernatural suspense thriller crosses several genres--espionage, geopolitics, religion, fantasy. But like the chicken crossing the road, it takes quite a while to get to the other side. En route, Tim Powers covers a lot of territory: Turkey, Armenia, the Saudi Arabian desert, Beirut, London, Paris, Berlin, and Moscow. Andrew Hale, an Oxford lecturer who first entered Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service as an 18-year-old schoolboy, is called back to finish a job that culminated in a deadly mission on Mount Ararat after the end of World War II. Now it's 1963, and cold war politics are behind the decision to activate Hale for another attempt to complete Operation Declare and bring down the Communist government before Moscow can harness the powerful, other-worldly forces concentrated on the summit of the mountain, supposed site of the landing of Noah's ark. James Theodora is the über-spymaster whose internecine rivalry with other branches of the Secret Intelligence Service traps Hale between a rock and a hard place, literally and figuratively. There's plenty of mountain and desert survival stuff here, a plethora of geopolitical and theological history, and a big serving of A Thousand and One Nights, which is Hale's guide to the meteorites, drogue stones, and amonon plant, which figure in this complicated tale. There's a love story, too, and a bizarre twist on the Kim Philby legend that posits both Philby and Hale as the only humans who can tame the powers of the djinns who populate Mount Ararat.

This is an easy book to get lost in, and Powers's many fans will have a field day with it. The rest of us may have a harder time. --Jane Adams

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Powers (The Anubis Gates, etc.), known hitherto as an expert fantasy writer, has created a mind-bending mix of genres here, placing his gifts for extreme speculative fiction in service of a fantastical spy story involving rivalries between no fewer than four intelligence services: British, French, Russian and American. In 1963, Andrew Hale is summoned to reenter the secret service. He has a past embracing anti-Nazi activities in Occupied ParisAwhere he fell in love with Elena, a Spanish-born Communist operativeAand a spectacularly unsuccessful mission on Mount Ararat in 1948, the purpose of which only gradually becomes clear. Powers posits that the mountain, as the speculative last home of Noah's Ark, is also the dwelling place of many djinns, supernatural beings that often take the form of rocks in the Arabian deserts. The father of British spy Kim Philby, a noted Arabist, had been a keen observer of these phenomena and taught his son about them. Now it seems that a supernatural power, manifesting itself as an old woman, is safeguarding the Soviet Union, and if fragments of a destroyed djinn can be introduced into Moscow, they could destroy her protection and make the Soviet Union susceptible to normal human laws. This is Hale's mission. In 1948 it failed, and most of his commando force was destroyed. On his return 15 years later, with Philby, Hale succeeds in shooting fragments of djinn into Philby, who then returns to Moscow. Upon Philby's death many years later, the Soviet Union duly collapses. The styles of spy fiction, with dense counterplotting and extremes of caution, and the spectacular supernatural scenes simply do not blend. It's all offbeat and daringly imaginative, but ultimately rather foolish entertainment. (Jan. 9) Forecast: This original novel, despite its strengths, is unlikely to satisfy fully fans of either spycraft or fantasyAand such is the pitfall of genre-bending. A 6-city author tour plus vigorous promotion online and off could give the book some turbo power, though.
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ William Morrow; First Edition (January 9, 2001)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 528 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0380976528
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0380976522
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.12 x 1.57 x 9.25 inches

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Tim Powers is the author of numerous novels including Hide Me Among the Graves, Three Days to Never, Declare, Last Call, and On Stranger Tides, which inspired the feature film Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. He has won the Philip K. Dick Memorial Award twice, and the World Fantasy Award three times. He lives in San Bernardino, California.

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PraetorXyn

A more realistic James Bond with a supernatural twist

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Declare has similar energy to The Spy Who Loved Me, my favorite James Bond film. The story is rooted in real history, but my ignorance of the subjects it covers means I likely didn't get as much enjoyment out of it as those who are familiar with the history.

Andrew Hale serves as a more realistic British spy throughout multiple points in history. His ill-fated romance with a foreign operative recurs throughout, and is probably my favorite part of the work. The story does take quite a while to get to its payoffs, but the payoffs are very good.

A good introduction to Tim Powers.

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A great read

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I bought this in Kindle format even though I already have it in hardback. It's that good. And the hardback version is that large and heavy.
This is not a fast read, but it's among my favorite works by Tim Powers. If you have not read Tim Powers before, this is not the book I'd recommend starting with.
One of the great talents of Tim Powers is his ability to take real life people, places or times and weave them into a story with supernatural forces / beings as the actual impetus of certain events. The writing is very good - the visual descriptions, the way he builds the tension and especially the way he manages to wrap up all the bits and pieces at the end.

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I will tell you up front that the "horror" genre is not my "cup of tea". If it were, this book would've gotten 5 stars rather than 4. So that lack of that fifth star is me, not the author or his book.

In the Author's Note (after the Epilog), he describes himself as a John le Carré fan. I would've expected him to mention H.P. Lovecraft as well but he didn't. This book seems equal parts le Carré and Lovecraft put into a literary blender on high for 10 minutes. More than enough time to thoroughly blend the two genres into one.

The "djinn" of the Arabian desert, Berlin, Moscow, and Mt. Ararat reminded me a lot of of C.S. Lewis' "eldila", except dark, fallen, and evil and not turning down the frequent blood sacrifice.

I was led to this book after reading Charles Stross' "The Atrocity Archive" where he mentioned it either at the beginning or end of his book.

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Gregory Price

A great introduction to Powers' work.

Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2005

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This book requires some dedication on the reader's part, at 500+ pages, but the payoff is worth it.

Not only does Powers weave an unusual story of supernatural powers and cold-war-era spyfaring, but he makes it all the more compelling by using real locations, historical events, and even personas.

The main character, Hale, is a British spy whose lineage brings him into the fold of an ultra-secret spy organization within the British government whose directive is to counter the supernatural machinations of the enemies of the crown. The story begins when Hale is recalled to service in order to rectify a botched operation following WWII.

To that end, the story alternates between different timelines, explaining his original introduction to the service and leading to the doomed operation on Mount Ararat, in addition to his resumption of the operation years later. The reader is at first given only a cursory idea of what the service entails, but then is later treated to some very compelling and convincing events that bring this strange and frightening world into focus.

The author really shines in his attention to historical, geographic, and geopolitical detail as the story unfolds. Actual historical events and persons are used to great effect to build the story's foundation of spies and intrigue in Europe and the Middle East. From there, the author convincingly adds the menacing and fascinating aspect of the supernatural, while deftly maintaining the mystique by refusing to focus on it more than is necessary.

Just to underscore his hard work and love for the craft, the author appends some notes at the end of the story revealing quite a bit of the facts and characters behind the story, which is in itself a fun read.

I finished reading this story wondering if, in fact, the events of the story may have actually happened. That should say quite enough.

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Another 3-1/2 Star Rating

Reviewed in the United States on June 30, 2014

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Tim Powers' 2001 novel "Declare" is another of those books that are better than OK but not quite good enough for Very Good. So, even though I'm formally rating it at a Very Good 4 stars out of 5, I'd really like to make that a 3-1/2 star rating. Of course, it's interesting that I say that since the book won both the 2001 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel and the 2001 International Horror Guild Award for Best Novel. If you've read any Powers before, you've got a good idea what to expect: he takes some historical facts (in this case, a lot of World War II/Cold War stuff mostly driven by the life of Kim Philby -- so I highly recommend you read the Wikipedia article on him (material on his father, St. John Philby, and T.E. Lawrence might be useful, too)) and intersperses them with weird things for a different interpretation. The writing is good, though it does suffer quite a bit by the pacing issue most of his "historical fiction" is prone to. Also, in this book, he tells the tale in non-chronological order and we find out a lot of things near the beginning that happen near the end but have no idea what they mean until we weave our way there. It's an interesting way to present the story, but it is a bit frustrating and confusing. Personally, I'd have preferred a much more linear telling. Still, it's a very good book and he ties everything up very neatly at the end.

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Ian Marteens

Unapologetically clear

Reviewed in Spain on January 29, 2017

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Excellent novel, as usual. Interesting and credible characters. A breath-taking plot. The most I like of it, however, is that Powers is unapologetically clear about the nature of the former Soviet Unión: it was a criminal dictatorship. The reasons for being that way, as put in the book, are a fantasy, of course. But the naked fact remains. Hat-tip for the cameo by a descendent from Mr. Ashbless.

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OK

Reviewed in Germany on April 11, 2016

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quite readable even if it could have been somewhat shortened by tighter editing - belief also has to be somewhat suspended . . .

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libro eccellente!!!

Reviewed in Italy on December 14, 2015

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Davvero bello...
Già in precedenza Powers (che conoscevo e ho già apprezzato) ha mischiato il sovrannaturale con le sue storie, ma a questo titolo sono arrivato tramite le segnalazioni di Amazon dopo aver letto i libri di Stross... e che bella segnalazione è stata!!!
Documentata storia che sfrutta la vicenda delle spie comuniste di Cambridge degli anni '60 attribuendo alla Guerra Fredda anche un aspetto magico, batte di gran lunga le storie di Stross di ambientazione modernissima.
Personaggi macerati dall'incontro con esseri demoniaci e dalla percezione del mondo ultraterreno si incrociano per venti anni, avanzando a tentoni nel tentativo di avvantaggiare la propria fazione (e distruggere.. o sfruttare .. i poteri di eseri non umani), col problema di capire esattamente QUALE è la porpria fazione e quali sono i suoi veri scopi... una storia davvero non scontata che mantiene l'attenzione del lettore.
Due dettagli ho apprezzato, poi, proprio in contrapposizione alle storie di Stross: l'atmosfera di "straordinario", incomprensibile e poco gestibile che il sovrannaturale mantiene in questo libro, invece di essere uno scontato, serializzato, semplice accessorio del cellulare descrito da Stross, e la "spiegazione" del sovrannaturale in funzione della tradizione cattolica, e non negando la religione come Stross... ma qui si tratta di questioni personali.. :)
Perché non 5 stelle??? in alcuni passaggi risulta prolisso...

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frenchy

Manque de rythme, je n'arrive pas à rentrer dans l'histoire, alors que j'aime le thème et l'auteur

Reviewed in France on February 3, 2020

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Ce livre m'a beaucoup déçu et bien que j'y revienne régulièrement , je n'ai pas réussi à le finir.
Pourtant j'aime beaucoup Tim Powers comme auteur , et l'idée que la guerre froide utilise l'occultisme / des horreurs à la Lovecraft est intéressante. Mais la première moitié du livre est 99% espionnage et 1% trucs étranges, et au final comme auteur d'espionnage Tim Powers n'est pas du même calibre que John Le Carré ou Graham Greene. Ca s'améliore p-e sur la 2nde moitié, mais j'ai lâché le livre avant.
J'ai commandé ce livre après avoir dévoré "The Atrocity Archives " de Charles Stross, les 2 ouvrages explorant le même mélange espionnage / horreur, mais le résultat final est très différent.

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Sergio

Una super-storia di spie e di magia da un autore inimitabile

Reviewed in Italy on October 1, 2016

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Tim Powers ha pochi rivali nel mescolare un certo tipo di "soprannaturale" in trame peraltro complesse e godibili senza che l'elemento soprannaturale stoni o sembri per certi versi "infantile". Durante la lettura gli elementi magici, spesso concepiti come spiegazione di fenomeni scientifici o avvenimenti realmente accaduti, sembrano davvero essere la spiegazione più "logica" per quello che succede nel libro. In particolare questo lungo romanzo si muove nell'atmosfera della guerra fredda prima e dopo la seconda guerra mondiale dichiaratamente un pò alla maniera di John Le Carré, come riconosce l'autore stesso, e tiene i lettori incollati alle pagine fino alla fine come sempre. Un pò difficile forse leggerlo in lingua originale a causa della scrittura molto articolata, in questo aiuta la versione ebook da cui è facile consultare il dizionario online. Peccato che i primi romanzi di Tim Powers non vengano più ristampati in italiano. Comunque, fatevi un favore, leggete Tim Powers!!

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