![]() ![]() ![]() The narrative thereafter shifts among that present time and several past sequences-the most crucial being a 1948 disaster on Mount Ararat, when men under Hale’s command were slaughtered by enemy forces not of this earth. The increasingly Byzantine action begins in 1963, when a telephone message delivered in code draws Oxford lecturer (and “retired” secret agent) Andrew Hale back into an intrigue that dates from his wartime service. ![]() Powers, for more than 20 years the reigning king of adult historical fantasy ( Earthquake Weather, 1997, 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. ![]()
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