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In his 11th novel, Tim Powers requires his unique make of speculative fiction into uncharted territory, instilling the old-fashioned espionage novel with a wholesome dosage of the supernatural. As a young two times agent infiltrating the Soviet spy network in Nazi-occupied Paris, Andrew Hale sees himself caught up in a magic formula, even more ruthless warfare. Two decades later, a coded communication draws Teacher Andrew Hale back into Her Majesty's Top secret Service. Elements from his past are gathering in Beirut, including ex-British counterespionage main and Soviet mole Kim Philby, and a lovely previous Spanish Civil Battle soldier-turned-intelligence operative, Elena Teresa Ceniza-Bendiga. Soon Hale will be forced to confront again the headache that has haunted his adult life: a lethal unfinished operation code-named "Declare." Through the corridors of Whitehall to the Arabian Desert, from postwar Berlin to the pavements of Cold Battle Moscow, Hale's eager quest draws him into international politics and gritty espionage tradecraft-and inexorably drives Hale, Ceniza-Bendiga, and Philby to a fatal confrontation on the high glaciers of Support Ararat, in the very shadow of the fantastic and perilous biblical Ark.
