Declare: A Novel,New

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. Declareafter A Tenyear 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 Codenamed Declare.Two Decades Earlier, As A Young Double Agent Infiltrating The Soviet Spy Network In Nazioccupied 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 Cenizabendiga, The Object Of Hales 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 Worldshattering 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 Carr