Ebook {Epub PDF} Declare by Tim Powers

Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call and Declare. Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award. His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series and was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. 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 during the Second World War and continues into the 60s Cold War between the East and the West. I love the idea of a secret layer to our reality that we don’t know anything about.4/5. A spy novel by Tim Powers, Declare follows British agent Andrew Hale through a covert Cold War operation with roots in the intricacies of the Great Game and a distinct supernatural bent. It is written as a Secret History, postulating that there are supernatural events occurring behind the scenes of otherwise-mundane occurrences.

This is the second book I've given up on recently, with about hours to go. I loved Tim Powers' The Anubis Gates. Like The Anubis Gates, this book has no end of ideas, plot twists and subterfuge, but Declare just did not work for me. The structure doesn't help; the story is told in a very fragmented way, with jumps from one time period to. Author: Tim Powers Title: Declare Pages: Format: Hardcover Thy story is a marvelous one! If it were graven with needles on the corners of the eye, it would serve as a warning to those that can profit by example. A Cold War era spy thriller/horror/love story, centered around the life of the infamous Soviet. Declare is set more recently than The Dragon Waiting and Powers does a better job of explaining what's going on (helped by using a time in history I'm far more familiar with), but again I had a hard time getting into the story. Declare is told in two times, weaving together in the story. In , Andrew Hale is a lecturer and a retired deep.

A spy novel by Tim Powers, Declare follows British agent Andrew Hale through a covert Cold War operation with roots in the intricacies of the Great Game and a distinct supernatural bent. It is written as a Secret History, postulating that there are supernatural events occurring behind the scenes of otherwise-mundane occurrences. DECLARE. by Tim Powers ‧ RELEASE DATE: Jan. 1, Powers, for more than 20 years the reigning king of adult historical fantasy (Earthquake Weather, , etc.), surpasses himself—and enters richly promising new territory—with this intricate, inventive tale of Cold War skullduggery and close encounters with malevolent supernatural entities. 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 during the Second World War and continues into the 60s Cold War between the East and the West. I love the idea of a secret layer to our reality that we don’t know anything about.