Declare’s occult subtext for the deeper Cold War is wonderfully original and brilliantly imagined.

“DECLARE is classic Tim Powers, his best novel since Last Call, and possibly his best to date.” No one else writes like Powers, and Declare finds him at the top of his game.” He is a two-time winner of the World Fantasy Award for Last Call and Declare. Many of his fantasy novels are centered around historical events with fantastical elements added. Tim Powers, one of the most brilliant and audacious talents in. “There’s never been a novel quite like DECLARE…one of the protean Powers’s most absorbing and rewarding creations.” 1952) is an American science fiction and fantasy author. Declare by Tim Powers available in Hardcover on, also read synopsis and reviews. a tour de force, a brilliant blend of John le Carre spy fiction with the otherworldly.”

Two decades later, in 1963, he will be forced to confront again the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named Declare.įrom the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian desert, from postwar 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.

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.