Hale has no choice but to comply, for Declare is the key to a conflict far deeper, far colder, than the Cold War itself. Declare book by Tim Powers Horror Books > Supernatural Books Dumping Debt Rated: G (General Audience) See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 6. Editions for Declare: 0380798360 (Paperback published in 2002), (Kindle Edition published in 2009), (Kindle Edition published in 2010). Now, with the Cold War at its height, his superiors want him to return to the mountain and face the dark secret entombed within its icy summit. The supernatural elements also provides other levels. The story is good as a spy novel, with lots of tension, quick-witted escapes and hard moral choices as it switches backward and forwards between different times in the life of an English agent. Operation Declare took Hale from Nazi-occupied Paris to the ruins of post-war Berlin and the trackless wastes of the Arabian desert, culminating in a night of betrayal and mind-shattering terror on the glacial slopes of Mount Ararat. I think that this is probably the best book by Tim Powers. A cryptic phone call forces ex-MI6 agent Andrew Hale to confront the nightmare that has haunted his adult life: an ultra-secret wartime operation, codenamed Declare.

The terrible secret at the heart of the cold war. CLARKE AWARDĪn ultra-secret MI6 codename. Declare title listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction DatabaseThe Works of Tim Powers, the authors authorized website, has an interview focusing on Declare, and an extensive publishing history of the book with images from and of the various editions.

Declare by Tim Powers